Uncoordinated family careFamilies coordinate elder care in a group chat
Caring for an ageing parent means medications, appointments, home visits, bills and forms, shared between siblings in different cities and often different countries. It runs on a group chat, a shared folder and whoever remembers. Things fall through, one person quietly carries most of it, and the professionals involved each see a fragment of a picture nobody holds whole.
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Who lives with it
Adult children caring for parents · home-care workers · family doctors seeing only their slice
Why now
Populations are ageing across high-income countries and many middle-income ones while the paid care workforce is not growing with them, so more of this coordination falls to families who were never set up to do it.
Why it matters
This is coordination, exactly what software is good at, and the tools built for it have yet to become the way families actually run it. The work is already being done; it is simply being done badly, by people with no tools and no training, at one of the hardest times of their lives.
On the Index
Framed by Ainna's innovation team from a condition most readers will recognise, so no source is claimed. Published in Edition 1.
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