A better way to choose a caregiver
You know your loved one better than any résumé can. Care4 uses what you know—their routines, needs and way of communicating—to create realistic voice conversations for prospective caregivers. You can see how each person responds before care begins.
Example Care4 assessment
“I'm too tired. I'm not doing these exercises.”
“That's okay. Let's pause for a minute, then try one gentle movement together.”
The idea is simple
See it before care begins.
How Care4 works
A care plan can list medicines and daily tasks. It cannot always explain how to earn someone's trust, calm a stressful moment or make a familiar routine feel comfortable. Care4 brings those details into the conversation before you hire.
Answer guided questions about the person's routines, needs and way of communicating. You can also record short, everyday moments so Care4 can understand how they speak, react and accept help.
Care4 turns that information into 6–10 short voice conversations. Each one recreates a situation the caregiver may face, such as helping with medicine, physiotherapy or a stressful change in routine.
Each prospective caregiver listens and responds aloud as if the situation were happening. Care4 explains what they handled well, what the family should discuss with them and what the chosen caregiver should practise before starting.
Your family's information stays private. Care4 processes recordings and assessment responses on the device. It does not upload, sell or keep that personal information, and the assessment data is deleted when the assessment is complete.
Small routines carry large amounts of care knowledge.Care built around the person
People communicate, accept help and respond to stress in different ways. Care4 reflects those differences so families can choose a caregiver based on the interactions that actually matter at home.
Why families need Care4
Courses teach general skills, and matching services help you find available caregivers. Care4 answers a different question: how will this caregiver respond to the person and situations that matter in your home?
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Why this matters now
Older adults made up 18% of the U.S. population, and their number grew 13% from 2020 to 2024.
U.S. Census BureauU.S. employment of home-health and personal-care aides is projected to grow 18% from 2025 to 2035.
U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCMS reports that 79% of surveyed U.S. patients said they would definitely recommend their agency.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesThat is 24% of adults statewide. Separately, 39% report difficulty finding affordable local services, including in-home care.
Caregiving in the U.S. 2025: MarylandSimple proposed pricing
In a survey of 25 families with older parents, 22 of 25 said they would pay the proposed setup and assessment fees.
These responses show interest before Care4's first family trials.Learn about the person and create their first set of interviews.
Run the interview and explain how that caregiver responded.
What your family receives
Capture routines, preferences, communication and common difficult moments.
Let each caregiver respond to the same situations in their own words.
See what worked, what needs attention and what to practise before care begins.
My grandmother lives with Parkinson's and needs daily support. Finding a caregiver who understands how to work with her has been extraordinarily difficult.
In the past year alone, my parents have changed her caregiver more than a dozen times. Some struggled to help her take her medicines or complete her physiotherapy. Others were unsure how to respond when Parkinson's made everyday movements slower, or when frustration came out as sharp criticism.
They were all recommended for being “good with older people.” But no two people communicate, build trust or accept care in the same way.
Each caregiver would arrive with solid recommendations, spend a week learning through trial and error, encounter my grandmother on one of her hardest days, and often leave. My grandmother would be without reliable help again, while my family restarted the same exhausting search.
I wanted a better way to understand how a caregiver would respond before placing them in her home. I began building a personalized, voice-based interview that could recreate the communication challenges they would face with my grandmother, including her stutter, slower speech and changes in mood. Several caregivers could demonstrate how they would respond without my grandmother having to experience each trial placement herself.
I then realized this was not only my family's problem. Families everywhere are forced to discover whether a caregiver is suitable only after care has already begun. I refined the idea into Care4 so families could understand that relationship earlier and prepare the caregiver they choose.
Choose with more confidence
Care4 is preparing for early family trials. Until then, explore how it works and the story behind why it was built.
See how Care4 works