Carol Kaufman:  

My mom always told me to take lemons and make lemonade. This is My Story... I hope it helps anyone and everyone who reads this. On a quiet night in April, 1994, a phone call derailed my life. It was a Teaneck police officer. ¿Ms. Kaufman, I¿m sorry to have to tell you this, but your parents have been involved in a tragic accident,¿ said the officer. ¿Your father¿s been severely injured, is in a coma and has been airlifted to Hartford Hospital. Your mother¿s been killed¿. I'd been a single mom and a business woman since 1982 and I now became caregiver to my dad, inheriting a morass of legal documents, deeds, multiple residences, health care providers, medications, insurance policies, bank accounts, and a host of other critical documents and information. Soon, I was carrying an overstuffed binder that grew, week by week. Despite undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Michigan, working to help businesses organize and streamline, and building a multi-million dollar software company, I had now entered the swamp of my parents¿ information overload. I jumped on the internet thinking that there had to be something out there that could help me get organized, but I soon realized: no such product existed. My lifelong passion has been to help others solve problems and now I needed my own support, so, in 2008, I created my newest product: CareBinders¿. Launched in 2009, CareBinders¿ is the world¿s first and only software product to simplify all the data in your family¿s and extended family's lives. CareBinders¿ consolidates all personal, medical, financial and other information for each family member. The power behind CareBinders¿ is its simplicy. As a powerful database, you only need to enter common information, like an address, a doctor or a pharmacy, once. Anyone else who uses that information can just get linked to it with a checkbox. With a click of the mouse, you can access all your data, automatically create dozens of intelligent reports, like a My Wallet Contents, a Pet Passport, an Emergency Wall...Expand for more