Who it's for
Coordinating a relative's medication
Care shared between several people fails in a predictable way: everyone assumes somebody else checked.
The coordination problem
Three siblings, one parent, and a medication routine. Everyone means well. Nobody has a reliable picture. The person who visits most becomes the de facto information service, repeating the same update in a group chat every evening, and quietly resenting it.
The failure is not that anyone stopped caring. It is that the information lived in one person's head and had to be manually copied to everyone else.
Everyone sees the same thing
A Care Circle holds one person's medication and everyone they invited. Each caregiver sees the same day, the same history and the same adherence figure, and each receives the same missed-dose alert.
Nobody has to ask, and nobody has to relay. The group chat can go back to being about something else.
Recording a dose you gave yourself
When you are the one in the room handing over the tablet, you can record the dose. It lands in the same history, and the day updates for everyone else.
Supply counts are the exception: only the recipient's own confirmation reduces them, because they are the one holding the packet.
What the person being cared for keeps
They own their medication list. They can see every caregiver in their circle. They can remove any of them, at any time.
This is not a formality. An arrangement someone cannot exit is an arrangement they will resist entering, and the most common reason a care app fails is that the person at the centre of it never really agreed.
It records what was taken and reminds people when to take it. It does not give medical advice, check drug interactions, recommend dosages or connect to healthcare providers. For anything clinical, talk to a pharmacist or a doctor.
Starting the arrangement
The invitation has to be accepted on the recipient's device, which forces the conversation to happen. That is a feature. A care arrangement that starts with one honest discussion outlasts one that starts with an app appearing on somebody's phone.
See how pairing works and what a caregiver can see.
Common questions
Can several family members share one Care Circle?
Yes. The person taking the medication can invite more than one caregiver. Every caregiver sees the same day, the same history and receives the same missed-dose alerts.
Does everyone get notified about everything?
Every caregiver receives missed-dose alerts. Doses taken on time update each caregiver's view silently, so a normal day generates no notifications for anyone.
Can a caregiver record a dose on the recipient's behalf?
Yes. If you gave your father his tablet yourself, you can record it. The record shows the dose was taken, and supply counts are only spent by the recipient's own confirmation.
We use a paper chart on the fridge. Why change?
A paper chart works beautifully for whoever is in the house and not at all for anyone who is not. CareDuo is for the family members who are somewhere else at 8pm.
Is this suitable for professional or paid carers?
CareDuo is built for family arrangements, not for agencies. There is no shift handover, no multi-client caseload and no clinical record-keeping.