---
title: "Family care: one place for a loved one's health | Lifelong"
description: "Lifelong helps families caring for a loved one through dementia, stroke recovery, cancer and chronic illness: check-ins, appointments, medications and records."
url: https://trylifelong.com/care
---

# Care for others in illness and in health

Their **appointments, medications and care**, remembered together.

[Get Lifelong app](https://go.trylifelong.com/speechfit-app)

![iPhone frame](https://trylifelong.com/longevity/hero/phone-frame.png)

Checking in on your mum, dad, partner or kids from anywhere.

Recovering from a stroke with nothing missed.

Facing cancer with everyone on the same page.

## For every kind of care chronic or acute

## Your family’s caring companion.

Understand **their results**, prepare for **appointments**, and make sense of **their shared records** with Alo.

![Portrait of the person asking](https://trylifelong.com/alo/serena-profile.png)Mum’s latest blood results are in. What’s changed?

Let’s compare them with her earlier reports, then put together the questions she wants to ask her doctor.

What should we ask first?

![iPhone frame](https://trylifelong.com/alo/iphone.webp)

### Their health, in focus.

Their **sleep, activity and recovery**, **health summary** and **biomarkers**, together in one place.

![Portrait of Serena](https://trylifelong.com/alo/serena-profile.png)

Serena

Last synced 2h ago

![Sleep gauge](https://trylifelong.com/alo/sleep-gauge.svg)**85**

![Sleep icon](https://trylifelong.com/alo/sleep-icon.svg)Sleep

![Activity gauge](https://trylifelong.com/alo/activity-gauge.svg)**52**

![Activity icon](https://trylifelong.com/alo/activity-icon.svg)Activity

![Recovery gauge](https://trylifelong.com/alo/recovery-gauge.svg)**71**

![Recovery icon](https://trylifelong.com/alo/recovery-icon.svg)Recovery

120 biomarkers

**86**In range

**12**Low

**22**High

Summary

Serena’s blood pressure has trended down since starting lisinopril in March. Cholesterol remains slightly elevated. Sleep has been steady this week; recovery dipped after Tuesday’s poor night.

![iPhone frame](https://trylifelong.com/alo/iphone.webp)

### Before the appointment.

A timely **reminder** and **a report to review**, so you’re ready for their next appointment.

![Lock screen wallpaper](https://trylifelong.com/alo/wallpaper.webp)

**Alo**9:41 AM

Timmy’s specialist appointment is today, I’ve prepared a report

![Alo](https://trylifelong.com/alo/alo.webp)**Lifelong**Today

Timmy’s appointment

Northside Hospital · 4:30 pm

**25** min

Leave by**3:55pm**

![pin icon](https://trylifelong.com/alo/pin.svg)

![iPhone frame](https://trylifelong.com/alo/iphone.webp)

### In the family group chat.

See everyone’s week, **celebrate the small wins**, and keep looking after each other. Alo brings your family’s health into the **conversation in iMessage.**

Today at 6:41 PM

How’s everyone doing this week?

Grandma’s in the lead! 👸 Here’s your family’s week.

![Your week together: a family health report](https://trylifelong.com/alo/report-cover.webp)![130 kilometres walked together, with Grandma as the top walker](https://trylifelong.com/alo/report-walked.webp)![Serena has the most consistent sleep this week at 95 percent](https://trylifelong.com/alo/report-sleep.webp)![Three things looked after: Grandad’s heart, Mum’s refill and two new records](https://trylifelong.com/alo/report-looked-after.webp)

Your family’s week, together.![tail icon](https://trylifelong.com/alo/tail.svg)

![iPhone frame](https://trylifelong.com/alo/iphone.webp)

![An older couple, one with a hand on their chest](https://trylifelong.com/nucleus/aspects/missed-grandparents.webp)

### A daily check-in, even from afar

A **daily check-in** for Mum, and a **clearer picture** for everyone who cares for her.

![Three generations of a family together](https://trylifelong.com/nucleus/aspects/the-turn.webp)

**Mum’s cardiology review**

-   Blood pressure notes saved
-   Follow-up added to her calendar

**Dad’s neurology appointment**

-   Questions and answers captured
-   Care team’s next steps in one place

**Grandma’s physiotherapy**

-   Exercise notes ready to revisit
-   Progress shared with the family

### Every word from the appointment, kept

Record the appointment with **one tap**. Keep **what the doctor said** and the **next steps** together.

![Six family members connected by a single drawn thread](https://trylifelong.com/nucleus/aspects/carry-alone.webp)

### One memory across every specialist

Their **medications, symptoms and results**, together across specialists. Ask questions from the **whole story**.

![A globe with family members pinned across different countries](https://trylifelong.com/nucleus/aspects/globe-travel.webp)

### Everyone who needs to know, knows

Keep **the whole family informed**, across cities and time zones, with **shared updates**.

## Whatever they're managing Lifelong knows it by name

Their **conditions, letters and lab results**, organised around the right person.

### Heart failure & COPD

**Daily weights, breathlessness and medication changes**, logged in seconds and followed over weeks.

### Diabetes & chronic conditions

**Glucose, blood pressure and refills**, in one routine the whole family can see.

### Post-surgery & acute recovery

**Discharge notes and follow-ups**, organised for recovery at home.

### Before the next appointment

Walk in with **the whole story**: what to review, ask and bring.

## Care for them, without carrying it alone

[Get the app](https://go.trylifelong.com/speechfit-app)

![The Lifelong app on a phone, held up in one hand](https://trylifelong.com/app-in-hand.webp)

Lifelong is a wellness app and is not a medical device. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. [Read the medical disclaimer](https://trylifelong.com/medical-disclaimer).

## Questions

The short ones are here. For anything else, ask underneath, or read [the full FAQ](https://trylifelong.com/faq).

### Can I keep records for someone who doesn't use the app?

Yes — a parent, a child, someone you care for. You manage a profile for them from your own account, and in doing so you confirm you are legally authorised to hold and make decisions about that person’s health information. That representation matters: if you do not have that authority, you should not be filing their records. The rules, and the channel for someone to have a profile about them removed, are in the [Family Sharing Terms](https://trylifelong.com/family-sharing).

### What can my family actually see?

Only what you have chosen to share with them. When you join a family, the app asks you to choose — per category — what your family can see:

-   Daily signals: sleep, activity, heart
-   Health records and documents
-   Medications, conditions, symptoms and appointments
-   Journal entries and notes

Nothing of yours is visible to anyone until you have made that choice and confirmed it. We recommend sharing everything, because a family that can see the whole picture is the point of the product — but it is a recommendation, not a default that happens to you. You can narrow, widen or revoke at any time, per category and per person, and revocation takes effect immediately.

### Does whoever created the family get to see everything?

No. The family owner can manage the family’s name and settings, invite and remove members, and end the family. The owner cannot see another member’s health information unless that member has shared it with them. Owning the family is an administrative role, not a privileged view. The same is true of whoever is paying, and of whoever uploaded a document: the person the data is about controls it.

### Do I need permission to record my appointment?

Usually, yes — and getting it is your responsibility, not ours. In many places the law requires the permission of everyone being recorded. So ask first: “Do you mind if I record this so I can remember it properly?” Most clinicians say yes. If anyone says no, don’t record. Before your first recording the app shows you the [Recording Consent Notice](https://trylifelong.com/recording-consent) and asks you to acknowledge it.

### Is Lifelong medical care?

No. Lifelong is a health information tool, not a medical device and not a substitute for a clinician. It does not diagnose, treat or prescribe, and nothing in it is a medical opinion.

It is also not a monitoring service. Nobody at Lifelong is watching your family’s data, and the app will not summon help. An alert is a prompt to look at something — it is not a clinical finding and its absence is not reassurance. In an emergency, call emergency services. The full detail is in the [Medical Disclaimer](https://trylifelong.com/medical-disclaimer).

Answered by AI from the pages of this site, and it can be wrong. It isn’t medical advice, so please leave personal health details out.