What does “UNOS for senior care” mean in practical terms?

CareSwaps is a Colorado technology platform that surfaces reciprocal swap and multi-facility swap-chain matching options across senior care communities so families can review operational matches (bed availability, payer acceptance, proximity, and timing) and decide for themselves. The phrase is shorthand for applying the same matching logic used in kidney-exchange programs, finding pairs and chains of compatible transfers, to senior-care bed movements. It is an analogy for the software model, not a claim of affiliation or clinical equivalence.

In practice the algorithm looks for operational compatibility: location preferences, timing windows, payer acceptance, and level of care. When a direct two-party swap is not available, longer chains are examined. Families see ranked operational options; each licensed community independently decides clinical appropriateness.

Dramatization, illustrative scenario, not actual patients or events: Three communities might form a chain in which each resident moves one step closer to their preferred geography. CareSwaps surfaces the possibility; the three communities and three families decide whether it proceeds.

Private-pay and commercial only by permanent design. Families can start and stop Platform Access at any time.