Caregiving for an ageing parent is too much for one person, and too important to go unspoken. Alutra gathers your family around a single shared space — so the love, the logistics, and the hard moments don't land on any one shoulder.
One day you're their child. The next, you're managing medications, chasing specialists, and answering the same worried question three times before breakfast. Siblings want to help but don't know how. Your own kids notice you're tired. And your parent — the person you're doing all this for — just wants to feel like themselves.
Alutra doesn't replace any of that. It holds it. Quietly. So the whole family can show up in the way they're able, and no detail — or person — slips through the cracks.
How they are this morning. Which medications have been given. Who's visiting, what's still unclaimed, and the note someone left after the clinic run.
No group chat to scroll back through, no spreadsheet to keep current. Open it once and you know where things stand.
The person you're caring for gets their own simple view — a gentle daily check-in, one tap to say “I could use a hand,” and an SOS that reaches the whole Circle straight away.
No email address needed: they can join with a code, on whatever device they already use. And their view can be kept as simple as suits them — from everything, down to just the essentials.
Every feature was designed around one question: what would actually make this easier at 11pm on a Tuesday?
Appointments, hospital visits, who's bringing dinner Thursday. One calendar the whole family actually looks at — with gentle reminders so no one forgets.
Log doses as you give them. Siblings see in real time what's been taken, what's due, and what ran out — no more “did anyone give Dad his 2pm?”
A group thread just for this — separate from the family text chain full of birthday emojis. Photos, updates, small wins, hard days.
Post what needs doing — “pick up refill,” “chase the funding paperwork,” “Sunday lunch.” Family members claim what they can. No nagging, no guilt, no imbalance.
Daily check-ins for mood, activities and observations — with photos, a handover note for whoever's next, and a way to flag a concern so the right people see it.
No setup call. No steep learning curve. You'll have a working Circle before the tea gets cold.
Tell us who you're caring for — their name, a few basics. It takes about two minutes and it's just for your family.
Siblings, your parent themselves, a trusted neighbour, the support worker. Each person gets the view that makes sense for their role.
Add the first appointment. Assign the first task. Watch the weight start to redistribute — across the whole Circle, the way it should.
Alutra is built by a New Zealand family doing this for our own grandmother right now.
The shared calendar, the medication list, the gentle daily check-ins — we use them with her, the same week we build them.
Her story is hers to tell, so we'll share it properly soon — for now, know that everything here exists because our family needed it first.
Start with the free Funding Checklist — the government support many families don't know they can ask for.
Start with the free Care Kit — checklists, contacts and first steps in one place, plus a one-page agenda for the family conversation.
It's free to start — 21 days, no card. When the next hard day comes, you won't have to face it by yourself.
