NeuroCare
A unified platform making stroke recovery accessible from home — combining care, rehab, and support in one place.
Created on 29th May 2025
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NeuroCare
A unified platform making stroke recovery accessible from home — combining care, rehab, and support in one place.
The problem NeuroCare solves
Every year, millions of stroke survivors struggle with isolation, immobility, and emotional trauma — often without structured support. Once discharged from the hospital, many are left with little guidance on what to do next, facing a confusing and fragmented recovery journey. Families, too, are left overwhelmed — juggling appointments, managing medications, coordinating home care, and dealing with the emotional toll — all without a centralized system to support them.
40% of stroke survivors end up with long-term disabilities, such as impaired mobility, speech loss, or cognitive decline, and yet are given no clear or personalized recovery plan to follow. This leads to frustration, mental health issues, and in some cases, a complete lack of progress.
Over 60% don’t have access to critical post-stroke care like physiotherapy, home nursing, mental health counseling, or regular vitals monitoring. The absence of these services not only slows recovery but increases the risk of recurring strokes and other serious complications — turning what could be a hopeful journey back to independence into a long, uncertain struggle.
Challenges we ran into
While building this project, I ran into a few unexpected challenges. Integrating secure and stable video calls was more complex than I initially thought — handling permissions, real-time audio/video streams, and ensuring smooth connectivity took a lot of trial and error. I also faced some delays with setting up API keys, especially with services like Google Gemini AI and Google Maps, where rate limits and verification slowed things down. Lastly, making the real-time hospital locator accurate using GPS was tricky due to inconsistencies in user location data. To overcome these, I leaned on prebuilt SDKs like Jitsi for video calls, set up fallback options with mock data in case APIs failed, and added manual hospital search options in case live location couldn’t be fetched reliably.
