FAQ
MeYou Care, asked and answered.
The questions families ask: what the person has to do, what the family sees, and where the line is between a companion and care.
No, and that is the point of it. The pendant has its own connection, so there is no smartphone to keep charged, unlocked, updated or found. One button, a voice, a ring of light, and a dock to put it down on.
Press and talk. There is no second gesture, no menu, no screen to get lost in, and nothing to remember between one day and the next. When the battery is low it says so, and putting it on the dock is the whole of the maintenance.
Anything they would ask a person who knows them: whether they took their pills, how to get home, what their daughter does, what day it is, or simply to talk for a while. It answers from the record of what has actually been said, not from a guess.
The family, once, from a page in a browser: who they are, what matters medically, the reminders of the day, the people to call and who gets an alert. After that the page is for watching rather than working, and the person wearing the pendant never touches a setting.
They see that a reminder was answered and that an alert was raised, not what was said, unless the person wants that shared. The patient has a database of their own like everybody else, and being cared for is not the same as being watched.
Movement that looks like a fall raises an alert to the people on the list, and where they are can go to the family if that was set up. Be clear about what that is: an alert reaches the people you chose. It is not an emergency service answering, and it does not replace one.
With consent, the trends that ordinary talk makes countable: how often the same story comes back as new, whether the world of people and places is widening or narrowing, whether today's account agrees with last month's, whether the routine held. Every one of them has words and dates behind it, so a person can look at the evidence rather than a score.
No. MeYou Care carries conversation, memory, reminders and alerts. It does not diagnose, screen for or treat anything, and nothing it shows is medical advice. Decisions about care stay with the people qualified to make them.