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How it works

One person at the center. Everyone who helps, around them.

A care circle is the group already doing the work — family, paid caregivers, a coordinator. Today each of them holds a piece of it, and somebody spends their evenings on the phone joining the pieces up.

01 — The idea, in one picture

The plan belongs to the person

Their appointments, their medications, their notes and their documents. People are given access to it rather than each keeping a version — so when a caregiver changes, or one sibling takes over from another, nothing has to be rebuilt.

Readings sit against limits set for that person. While they are in range nothing is sent at all. When one crosses, everybody in the circle hears at the same moment, and each of them sees the part that is theirs to do.

The person at the center chooses who is in the circle and what each of them can see.

Motion · the reading crosses, the three spokes light 400ms apart, each role shows what they do about it, then it rests. Holds the resting state under reduced motion.

02 — What it actually does

A day in the life, covered

Eight things, against one person. Open any of them.

−Face to face, any time

Video calls between the person at the center and anyone in their care circle — no separate app, no meeting link, no password to remember. A clinician joins the same way.

+A daily check-in that sticks

Four taps, once a day: how they are feeling, any pain, and a reading if they take one. The streak is the point — it is the difference between a record the office types into and one that tells somebody something.

+Vitals that sync themselves — and stay quiet

Blood pressure, weight, glucose and the rest arrive from the devices the household already owns, through Apple Health or Google Health Connect. Nothing is sent while a reading is inside the limits set for that person. When one crosses, the whole circle hears at once.

+Medications, watched over

The full list, who confirmed each dose, and what is running low. New medications are checked for interactions and against known allergies as they go in.

+One shared calendar

Every appointment and every visit in one place, with a name against each. A sibling three states away sees the same week as the caregiver arriving on Tuesday.

+A clinician, without leaving home

Telemedicine through the same app, with a practitioner partner, rather than a separate number to find at the wrong moment.

+Everything on paper, in one place

The discharge summary, the advance directive, the insurance card, the power of attorney. Uploaded once and there for whoever is allowed to see it, instead of in a drawer at one person’s house.

+Who sees what, decided by her

The person at the center chooses who is in the circle and what each of them can see, one by one. A caregiver who leaves is out in a tap, and nobody has to change a password.

9:41Video

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The person calling, full frame

Self view

Dana · Family caregiver · 15:20

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9:41Today

How are you feeling today?

Not greatOKGood

Any pain?

NoneA littleA lot

Left kneeOn the stairs, mild — same as Friday

12 days in a row. Nobody had to ask.

9:41Readings

Today

138/82Blood pressure — limit 150/90. In range

In rangeWeight, steady four weeks

In rangeGlucose, six days

You set the limits. Nothing is sent until one is crossed — and then everyone hears, not just one person.

9:41Medications

Today, 08:00

Lisinopril 10mgTaken — confirmed 08:10

Metformin 500mgTaken — confirmed 08:10

Interaction checkNew prescription flagged against the current list. Review before adding.

Refill: 6 days left. Dana has it, by Friday.

9:41This week

Tuesday

09:00 — Morning visitRosa

14:30 — Dr Achebe, videoDana joining

Wednesday

16:00 — Book clubTheir own

Added by anyone in the circle. Seen by all of them.

9:41Care

Talk to a clinician

Start a visitThrough the app. No separate number, no new login.

Who can see itThe visit is logged to the care plan. The circle sees that it happened.

[CONFIRM — partner name, hours covered, and the wording they will stand behind.]

9:41Documents

Eleanor’s documents

Discharge summarySt Anne’s, 4 Sept

Advance directiveSigned 2024 — circle can view

Insurance cardFront and back

Power of attorneyMarcus — restricted

Who can open each one follows the permissions she set.

9:41Permissions

Rosa — paid caregiver

Care plan and tasksCan view and add

Health readingsCan view

Care notesCan view and add

DocumentsAdvance directive only

Billing and insuranceNo access

Seven of these, per person. She sets them.

03 — The point of it

Nobody gets a dashboard they didn’t ask for.

The person at the center sees their day and who is calling. Family see what changed. Caregivers see the visit and the handover. An organization sees whether the program is working, and never an individual’s record.

04 — From the people using it

“The app I have, I think of as a caregiver on the go. I don’t have to be physically in the house. I can see what’s going on in the house anytime from anywhere.”
Susan C., Caregiver

“Before I felt like I couldn’t really leave her in any capacity, for any amount of time. This technology eases my mind and makes me feel she’s safe.”
Licia R., Caregiver

Image hereFull bleed, 1280 wide. A care circle as it really looks — two or three generations in one ordinary moment, nobody being managed. This is the photograph that has to carry the word “circle” without a diagram.

05 — Setting it up

Setting it up takes one evening

Download the app — no card, no hardware, nothing installed in the house. Invite the people who already help, and each one arrives with the view that fits their role. Put in what you already know: the appointments, the medications, the two or three things worth keeping an eye on. Add the rest when you want to.

See it with your own circle

Whichever side of the circle you are on. Start with your family, your agency, or your members.