Feature
History and adherence, counted honestly
An adherence figure is only useful if you can trust the arithmetic behind it. Most of the work here went into what not to count.
The Activity view answers two different questions, so it is built in two parts: what happened, in order, and how the week is going, in one number.
The history is a record, not a scoreboard
Every dose that anyone acted on appears in a chronological list: taken, skipped or missed, with the medication, the scheduled time and the time it was actually confirmed.
It loads a page at a time as you scroll. History only ever grows, and an app that re-reads a year of doses every time one changes is an app that drains a battery for no reason.
What adherence counts
The percentage is the share of doses that were due and taken, over a window. Three rules keep it fair:
- Only doses whose time has passed are counted. The future is not a failure.
- A medication cannot be missed before it existed. Adding a tablet on Thursday does not retroactively spoil Monday.
- A day is only marked complete when the whole day is accounted for. A tick beside today at breakfast would tell a caregiver the day was finished when it had barely started.
With nothing yet due in a week, CareDuo shows no percentage at all rather than 0%. A week that has not started is not a week that went badly.
Late is not missed
A dose confirmed forty minutes late counts as taken. The record keeps both times, when it was due and when it was confirmed, so the pattern is visible without the summary being punitive.
Someone reading their week should be able to see "I am usually half an hour late with the evening tablet" without also being told they failed.
Skipped is its own answer
Skipped doses are not counted as taken and are not counted as failures. They appear in the history as what they were: a decision, made by a person, on purpose. A week with three deliberate skips is a different week from one with three silences, and the display says so.
What the caregiver sees
Caregivers see the same history and the same adherence figure for the person they care for. There is no separate, more revealing view. Nothing is shown to one member of a Care Circle and hidden from the other.
Common questions
What counts as an adherent dose?
A dose confirmed as taken, including one confirmed late. Skipped doses are recorded as decisions rather than failures and are shown separately.
Does a dose later today count against the percentage?
No. Adherence counts only doses whose scheduled time has already passed. A tablet due at 20:00 is not an omission at breakfast.
Are there streaks?
No. Streaks turn a health routine into a game, and the day you break one is the day you stop opening the app. CareDuo shows what happened and leaves the judgement to you.
How far back does history go?
History covers the whole life of the Care Circle, loaded a page at a time as you scroll rather than all at once.
Can a doctor see this history?
Only if you show it to them. CareDuo has no clinician portal and does not share data with healthcare providers, pharmacies or insurers.