What caregivers see
Cognitive Companion gives you context on your own schedule. It stays quiet until something is worth your attention, then tells you what changed and where, with enough detail to decide what to do without opening a video feed.
Alerts you can actually act on
Alerts reach you on whatever channel you set up, usually a Telegram message, a popup in the companion app, or a spoken announcement in the home. Each one comes with context, the room and a short description of what happened, so the message itself is enough to judge whether it needs you now or can wait.
They come at four levels:
| Level | What it means | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency | Needs you now | No one seen for several hours |
| Warning | Worth a look soon | A bathroom visit much longer than usual |
| Info | Just so you know | The daily activity summary |
| Reminder | A gentle prompt for the senior | A medication or mealtime nudge |
An emergency does not rely on you catching the first message. If it goes unacknowledged, the system re-sends it three times at five-minute intervals before it stops.
The routine changes it watches for
Over time the system learns what a normal day looks like for each person, then flags the moments that fall outside it. There are six of them:
| Change | What it means in plain terms |
|---|---|
| Pacing | Walking back and forth between rooms, more than purposeful trips would explain |
| Sundowning | More evening restlessness than usual for this person |
| Long bathroom visit | A bathroom stay well past their normal |
| Nighttime movement | More moving around after dark than they usually do |
| Stillness | Staying very still for a long stretch somewhere that is not a normal resting spot |
| Absence | Not being seen for longer than you would expect at this time of day |
Each one is measured against that person's own history, so an ordinary long shower stays quiet. The system also waits for a pattern to hold before it says anything, which keeps a single odd moment from turning into a stream of notifications. These are signals about routine, meant to prompt a check, with no medical conclusion attached.
A sense of the whole day
Not everything is an alert. At the end of the day the system can put together a short wellness summary, so you get a feel for how the whole day went.
A place to review and clear things
Caregivers and care teams work from a web console: review alerts, see which rooms are occupied, and acknowledge a signal once you have handled it. Acknowledging clears the alert and opens a quiet window for that kind of event, so you are not nagged about something you already dealt with.
You decide what reaches whom
You choose which reminders the senior gets and which alerts go to which family member. Anything sensitive waits for a person to decide. The system tells you what it noticed; it does not act on its own.
To see how these same moments feel to your relative, read what the senior experiences. To check what your home needs, see is this right for us?.