Cairn
Four people are looking after your mom, and nobody’s sure if she took her evening pills.
Last check 10:51 AM by Dana.
“Ate a proper lunch and we sat out back for a while.”
- Dinner6:00 PM
- Evening pills7:30 PM
And two more times in the next two days.
That’s the whole app. See a real screen — no sign-up, made-up family.
Cairn is one shared page for the few people looking after someone who needs help day to day.
Right now that’s a group text, and a group text has no memory. Somebody drives over to check and finds your brother already went. Somebody else assumed you had Thursday.
Today, in three seconds
Is she okay, and is anything getting missed? The day’s laid out by morning, midday, evening and bedtime, and anything nobody’s covered is the one thing that stands out.
One email every evening
For the people who are never going to install anything — the sister three states away, the aunt who doesn’t do apps — that email is Cairn. It says what happened, who’s coming tomorrow, and what still needs somebody. They can reply to it and it posts to the group.
Writing something down takes 15 seconds
If it’s slower than sending a text, everybody goes back to texting. So it isn’t slower than sending a text.
Where things stand
Cairn is new. A few families are using it right now, and it’s free. If you’re taking care of someone, tell me what doesn’t work.