For families caring for someone they love
Medications, appointments, and check-ins — shared across siblings, spouses, and trusted helpers without the group texts.
Android — coming soon
It's 8:13 PM.
Mom was supposed to take her evening blood-pressure pill at 8. You're 200 miles away and you don't want to call again — she's already feeling watched. Elderoak quietly notices, sends her a gentle reminder she taps from her recliner, and lets you know she's set for the night. No call needed.
It's a Tuesday morning.
Dad has a cardiology appointment. You can't take the day off, but your sister can. She opens Elderoak on her phone, sees the address, the doctor's name, the questions Dad wanted to ask, and a recording space for what the doctor says. By dinner, the whole family has heard it.
It's the Sunday before help arrives.
Mom's morning helper is going on vacation; someone new starts Monday. Through Elderoak, the new helper already has Mom's medication list, mobility notes, the time she usually wakes, and the breakfast she likes. Mom doesn't have to explain herself to a stranger.
We tried the group-text route too. Here's what it kept missing.
| Group texts | Shared spreadsheet | Elderoak | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who took her morning pills? | Whoever texts back first guesses | Spreadsheet — if anyone remembered to update it | Logged automatically, visible to the family |
| When's the next cardiology appointment? | Buried 200 messages back | On a tab no one opens | Shared calendar with reminders + driving notes |
| What did the doctor actually say? | Recap from one sibling, half-remembered | Notes from whoever drove that day | Voice-noted at the visit, transcribed for everyone |
| Did help arrive today? | Wait and wonder | Manual entry, often skipped | Helper check-in pings the family automatically |
| Can Mom use it herself? | Group texts can overwhelm her | Spreadsheets need a laptop | Her view shows only what's hers, in big type |
Four jobs the app does in the background, so you don't keep doing them yourself.
Schedule pills by time and dose. Quiet reminders on their phone or Apple Watch. Refills flagged before they run out. The whole family sees what was taken and what was missed — no one has to call to check.
Add a doctor's visit once. Whoever can drive sees the address, the questions to ask, and a place to record what the doctor said. By dinner, everyone has heard it.
Brothers, sisters, spouses, neighbors — invite anyone who helps. Each person sees what fits their role. The work of keeping everyone in sync stops landing on one person.
A red “Get help” button always reachable. Hold for two seconds — every assigned caregiver is notified at once, even through Do Not Disturb. On Apple Watch, fall detection covers the case where they can't press the button — the family is alerted anyway.
Real screens from the app — not mockups. Each role sees what fits the way they help, with the depth (or simplicity) the job calls for.
If you're an adult child or spouse
All the moving parts — meds, refills, appointments, who's there today, what's already been done — laid out so you stop being the bottleneck on every family question.
If you're the one being cared for
A simpler view of your day — what to take, how you're feeling, who to call. The family stays informed because you chose to share, not because anyone is looking over your shoulder.
If you're a trusted helper
We deliberately kept the helper view small. See today's plan, do the work, write the handoff, leave. The family sees you were there.
Elderoak runs on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch — and adapts to whichever surface is in front of you. The same family data, the same coordination, picked up where you left off.
On iPhone
Elderoak tracks the days-supply printed on every prescription label. When seven days of pills are left, you get a Refill running low alert — with the pharmacy phone number one tap away. No more 11pm trips because the bottle ran empty.
On iPad
Family caregivers coordinating across multiple parents get a two-column dashboard: family list on the left, today's schedule on the right. Tap a person — the timeline filters to their day without losing the rest of the family from view.
On Apple Watch
Confirm a dose, log a mood, or send SOS from the watch — without reaching for a phone. The red emergency button takes a 2-second hold so a pocket-press doesn't summon the family. And when Apple Watch detects a fall and they don't respond, the family is alerted too — on top of the emergency call Apple already places.
New · Apple Watch fall detection
Apple Watch detects falls. If your loved one doesn't respond to Apple's on-watch prompt, Elderoak relays a single notification to your family — best-effort delivery, supplementary to the emergency call Apple already places.
A complement to Apple's existing emergency-services flow — not a replacement.
Apple Watch SE · Series 4+ · Ultra
Five minutes to set up. Days of work it quietly handles after that.
Their name, a few medications, a couple of appointments. That's enough to start — you can keep adding as you go.
Send a link to siblings, your spouse, or the morning helper. They join with one tap and see what fits their role.
Reminders go out, doses get logged, doctor visits get shared. You stop being the only one who knows what's going on.
Twenty seconds across all three views — caregiver, cared-for, and helper — with the same family's data.
One free tier for the cared-for person. One Family tier for everyone helping.
Caregiver + cared-for
For one caregiver and the person they care for. No card needed.
Family coordination
30-day free trial. Cancel anytime.
Elderoak is a consumer app, not a Covered Entity or Business Associate under HIPAA. Health info you share with your family inside Elderoak is shared by your family, not placed with us by a healthcare provider — so it isn't PHI. If you're a clinician handling patient records on behalf of a practice, Elderoak is the wrong tool; you need a HIPAA-compliant EMR with a Business Associate Agreement.
Elderoak launches first on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch — Android is in development and coming soon. While we get the Android app to the same bar as iOS, Android family members can use the web dashboard at elderoak.app on any browser to see the family timeline, mark a dose as taken, and coordinate appointments. Apple Watch features (fall detection, dose-confirm, on-wrist SOS) will remain iOS-only for the foreseeable future.
The minimum needed to sync the family group: scheduled medications, appointments, voice-note transcripts, and SOS events. Audio recordings of doctor visits are stored encrypted and only shared inside your family group. We do not sell data, run ads, or train models on what you upload. Detailed list lives in our privacy policy.
Free tier (one caregiver + one cared-for) keeps working forever. If you cancel the Family tier, you keep access to your existing data through the end of your billing period; then the app drops back to free-tier features — extra caregivers lose access to real-time family updates, but the original duo's account keeps working. Nothing is deleted unless you delete it yourself.
Yes — the cared-for role is designed to be used by the senior themselves. Larger type, fewer choices on screen, voice input where possible, and a one-tap SOS button. If they can't use it (vision, cognition, motivation), the family can run everything from their side and the cared-for never has to open the app.
No. The SOS button and fall-detection family alerts notify your family group — they are a supplement to calling emergency services, not a replacement. The in-app SOS sheet, the watch fall-alert UX, and our Terms all carry this disclaimer. For any true emergency, call 911 (or your local equivalent) directly first.
A note from the team
“We built Elderoak after watching our own families try to coordinate care for grandparents through group texts, spreadsheets, and a lot of guesswork. Every family ends up building this themselves — we just wanted to give you a gentler place to start.”
Start with one person. Add the rest of your family at your own pace.
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