On September 25, 2023, CHART Director, Wendy Rogers and Coordinator, Carrie Wennerdahl welcomed and provided Amy Brennen, Executive Director of the Illinois Caregiver Coalition and Susan Real, Executive Director of the East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging INC (ECIAAA) a tour of the McKechnie Family LIFE Home. During the tour, the guests viewed the lab space, with a demonstration of the smart appliances, and interactions with the robots. After the tour, we discussed opportunities for continued collaborations between CHART and these agencies.
Pictured left to right: Harshal Prabhakar Mahajan, Carrie Wennerdahl, Susan Real, Amy Brennan, Wendy Rogers, Samuel Olatunji