In development

Caring for someone should not depend on who remembered to call

You are managing your mother’s care from three states away. The appointments, the medications, the aide’s schedule, and the feeling that something changed last week that nobody wrote down. We are building an app for that: for her, for you, and for the people paid to help.

What it does

Four things, done properly

01

Someone there on the ordinary days

Conversation, reminders that land at the right moment, and a routine that holds up on the days when nobody is able to call. Most of caring for someone is not an emergency. It is Tuesday.

02

One place the family can look

Appointments, medications, and the aide’s schedule in one shared view, so nobody is reconstructing last week from three group texts and a photo of a pill organizer.

03

Change, while it is still small

When the pattern of a week shifts, the people who care about it hear so, early, in plain language. The app raises what it noticed. It does not diagnose, and it does not decide.

04

Straight answers about benefits

What is covered, what is available, and what someone is entitled to, without three phone calls and a PDF from 2019. Every answer points at the source it came from.

Who it is for

Three people, one household

Care is never one person’s job, and software that only serves one of them makes the other two do more work.

Older adults

The person using it every day. Built to be worth opening rather than something a family installs on someone else’s behalf, and designed with older adults rather than about them.

Families

The daughter three states away, the son who takes the calls, the sibling who does the paperwork. One shared picture, so coordinating does not depend on who remembered to write it down.

Professional caregivers

Aides and coordinators carrying more clients than any one person can hold in their head. Less time reconstructing context, more time with the person in front of them.

How we are building it

Slowly enough to get it right

  • We start with the people, not the feature list. The research comes before the build, so what ships is shaped by how care actually works in a household rather than how it looks on a whiteboard. Research →
  • It reports, it does not diagnose. Nothing it produces is a medical opinion, and nothing reaches anyone as advice. A person is always the one who decides what a change means.
  • Health data is handled like health data. Encrypted, kept in US regions, reachable only by scoped access, and never used to train anyone’s model. Trust center →
  • Dignity is a design constraint. This is a tool for someone’s life, not a monitor pointed at them. If a feature would feel like surveillance to the person using it, it does not ship.

Tell us about your situation

We are talking to families, older adults, and care professionals while we build. If you are living this, we would like to hear how it actually goes, and you will hear from a person rather than a mailing list.

hello@lucitra.ai