The Caregiver Innovation Council

Join Caregiver Action Network in bringing innovation and strategic solutions to support today’s family caregivers.

The Caregiver Innovation Council exists to foster innovation and develop strategic solutions that elevate the support and resources available to caregivers, aligning with CAN’s mission of empowering caregivers across the nation. Our objective is to improve caregivers’ quality of life by sharing insights, promoting collaboration, and advancing accessible solutions to address critical caregiving challenges.

The Council primarily aims at caregiver tech startups and companies founded by individuals with personal caregiving experience.

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COUNCIL VALUES

COUNCIL LEADERSHIP

Marvell Adams Jr., CEO of CAN

Chair

Melissa Rowley, Isaac Health

Co-Chair

Keeping up with the CIC

[Watch] Caregiver Innovation Council Summit 2026

Shaping the Future of Caregiving Technology

[Report] Shaping the Future of Caregiving Technology

[Watch] The Future of Caregiving: Role of Technology, AI, and Innovation.

Session from the Elizabeth Dole Foundation’s 11th Annual National Convening. Full event recording.

It’s a true honor to be part of CAN’s Caregiver Innovation Council. At Isaac Health, our mission is deeply aligned with the needs of caregivers, and for me, this work is also personal—having been a caregiver for a loved one with dementia, I understand firsthand the challenges and emotional weight that come with it. I’m grateful for the opportunity to help drive meaningful solutions that support caregivers nationwide.
Julius Bruch, Isaac Health

Joining CAN’s Caregiver Innovation Council is deeply personal for me. As a former service member, care supporter, and now founder, I know how easily vital information falls through the cracks, adding stress for families and risk for loved ones. Being part of the CIC means collaborating with mission‑driven peers to close those gaps at scale. Together, we can lift every caregiver’s daily experience and bring dignity, clarity, and peace of mind to millions of families. Being a part of the Caregiver Innovation Council really feels like a Manhattan Project of caregiving.

Liban (lee~ben) Kano, CareSupport

Having been a family caregiver (and likely a future one), being a founding member of CAN’s Caregiver Innovation Council is very personal. It’s a chance to help shape the future of caregiving by advocating for meaningful solutions, innovative resources, and stronger support systems for family caregivers.

Crystal Gallo, InnerHive

Being part of CAN’s Caregiver Innovation Council is deeply meaningful because it’s an extension of our deep mission in supporting family caregivers. We know caregiving is often invisible, isolating, and emotionally complex. That’s why we’ve dedicated ourselves to creating tools that ease the weight caregivers carry, help them feel seen, and offer real, evidence-based support when they need it most.

To join a council that shares that same commitment—to elevating the caregiver’s experience and building a better future through innovation—is both an honor and a responsibility we take seriously. We’re here to listen, learn, and share what we’ve built with and for caregivers so we can continue to do our part to help improve the caregiver’s journey.

elbi

Being part of CAN’s Caregiver Innovation Council is both a personal and professional privilege for me. As someone who has seen firsthand the invisible weight caregivers carry, especially in the disability community, I know how urgently we need better systems, smarter tools, and deeper empathy. This Council represents an incredible opportunity to shape collaborative solutions and partnerships that don’t just check a box, but truly move the needle for caregivers. It’s a chance to help build what I wish had existed for my own family and to ensure caregivers are no longer an afterthought in a world where they are the backbone of so much.

Being part of the Council has been truly invaluable to me and I feel really grateful for all CAN is doing to recognize organizations like ours that are kind of the nascent babies trying to innovate for caregivers alongside CAN.

Amanda Lukof, Eleplan

There’s no single silver bullet that will solve the Care Crisis. As all of us working in the caregiving space know, the solutions lie in collaboration between and among the public and private sectors. While RubyWell is focused on designing solutions that help pave a path to financial stability for family caregivers, I’m excited and inspired by the work of other innovative organizations in this field. The more insights, experience, and creativity we can share with each other, the faster we’ll all reach our shared goal of providing the essential workforce of family caregivers the support, compensation, resources, and respect they deserve.

Suzanne Boutilier, RubyWell
It’s a privilege to represent TCARE and participate as a founding member on the CAN Caregiver Innovation Council. I recognize that supporting caregivers isn’t just a moral imperative – it’s a societal and economic necessity. Caregivers are the backbone of our communities, yet they often lack the resources and supports they need to thrive. By contributing to this council, I hope to help shape innovative, scalable solutions – whether through workplace policies, technology, or advocacy – that ease caregiver’s burdens and brings focus back to their own health and wellbeing. Investing in caregivers strengthens families, workplaces, and our broader economy, and I look forward to collaborating with others who are committed to driving that change.
Lindsey Niemeier, TCARE®

At CareAcademy, our mission is to put caregivers at the center of the healthcare ecosystem—and innovation must start with them. Joining the Caregiver Innovation Council is a powerful opportunity to collaborate with others who are equally committed to elevating, supporting, and empowering caregivers across the country.

Helen Adeosun, CareAcademy

2026-2027 Innovation Council Cohort

Adley Health

Adley Health

Adley Health is an AI-powered platform helping patients and families navigate chronic illness without carrying the burden alone. Built on the belief that care should never fall on one person, Adley transforms care plans, medications, observations, and daily tasks into actionable intelligence. By capturing the full picture of care across a shared care circle, Adley helps uncover patterns, stay one step ahead, strengthen advocacy, and reduce the logistical burden of managing health. 

Visit Adley Health

Aging Care Navigators

Aging Care Navigators (ACN) equips family caregivers and organizations with practical strategies, education, and leadership-centered support to navigate aging care with confidence. Through coaching, workforce consulting, caregiver advocacy, and our Culture of Care Blueprint™, ACN helps employers, communities, and caregivers reduce burnout, strengthen support systems, and reframe caregiving as both a public health and workforce leadership issue. 

Visit Aging Care Navigators

Amintro

Amintro

Amintro’s mission is to help transform the caregiving experience through Amintro Family, a digital community and marketplace for family caregivers supporting aging parents, spouses, relatives, friends, neighbors, and other loved ones. The platform helps caregivers connect with peers, access trusted resources, discover helpful organizations and services, and feel supported through one centralized, AI-powered environment designed to reduce isolation, overwhelm, and caregiver burnout.

Visit Amintro

AtendaCare

AtendaCare is a voice-first AI caregiving companion designed to support family caregivers caring for loved ones with dementia and other chronic conditions. Through natural conversation, caregivers can document observations, concerns, and daily experiences without paperwork or complex technology. AtendaCare reduces caregiver burden while transforming those insights into organized summaries that help clinicians better understand what happens between visits. 

Visit Atenda Care

Benignity

Benignity LLC is a St. Louis-based eldercare consultation and dementia education company founded in 2022 by Arnesia F. Terrell, a Certified Dementia Practitioner and Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care Trainer. The company provides a safe space for older adults and their families to locate resources that support independence and quality care. Services include dementia training, Alzheimer’s education seminars, corporate training, dementia intervention consultation, and credentialing services.

Visit Benignity

Canary Health

We are a digital health company focused on supporting family caregivers through evidence-based, on-line programs designed to improve wellbeing, resilience, and reduce caregiver burden and stress. We partner with health plans, healthcare providers and employers to empower self-management with the digital tools, group support and coaching that put individuals back at the center of their caregiving journey.

Visit Canary Health

CareSupport

CareSupport is an AI assistant that lives in iMessage/SMS and coordinates family caregiving. No app to download – families just text. When a caregiver cancels, it finds and confirms replacements automatically. We’re building the coordination layer for the 63 million Americans doing unpaid family caregiving.

Visit CareSupport

CLE.MD

CLE.MD is the comprehension and behavioral intelligence layer healthcare’s infrastructure was never designed to include. Built by a family caregiver who sat in an ICU facing decisions she couldn’t understand. A protocol-driven behavioral system — because the reason comprehension fails is not lack of information. It is emotional state. Information delivered into fear, intellectual shame, or cognitive freeze does not land. CLE.MD was built from the ground up around that insight.

Visit CLE.MD

Eleplan

Eleplan is the operating system for caregiving. We help families and care teams transform scattered documents, routines, medical information, and lived experience into organized, searchable, secure intelligence that moves with a person across caregivers, providers, and life stages. By making critical information accessible when and where it is needed, Eleplan reduces caregiver burden, improves continuity of care, and helps ensure no knowledge is lost during transitions.

Visit Eleplan

EVRKind

EVRKind Care OS™ is an AI-powered system for the 63 million Americans caring for someone they love. Caregiving isn’t a single task, it’s an ongoing workflow. EVRKind helps you stay organized, prepared, and supported — from doctor visits to family updates. Our 24/7 multilingual CareNAV™ assistant works in 22+ languages; Care Journal™ is a printable guide caregivers can download today, and one we’re evolving; and Care Community™ lets caregivers tell us what to build next.

Visit EVRKind

Givers Health

Givers Health

Givers Health offers an out-of-the-box, white-labeled caregiver training and support platform for GUIDE providers, CBOs, health systems, and other caregiver-serving organizations. Partners get a customizable virtual assistant, LMS, curriculum, group training delivery, and reporting. Caregivers get help that finally feels useful, from organizations they trust. We’ve shown measurable gains in caregiver self-efficacy, driving higher quality of life and community time for care recipients.

Visit Givers Health

Homage Robotics

Homage Robotics builds Jarvis, the Live-In AI Caregiver, an autonomous companion that lives with older adults and provides 24/7 personalized support across daily management, physical and cognitive wellness, social connection, and safety. Our mission is to extend the reach of family and professional caregivers, reduce their burden, and ensure that every older adult has a consistent, caring presence, without compromising their privacy, dignity, or independence.

Visit Homage Robotics

InclusiGear

InclusiCare, by InclusiGear, is a care-coordination platform built primarily for families raising neurodivergent children through lived experience and constant feedback from our users. Our AI care assistant takes casual conversations, documents like IEPs and care plans, analyzes and stores them into a structure database that can be retrieved using the care assistant. This care assistant can be shared with anyone invited to the care circle to facilitate better care hand offs.

Visit InclusiGear

Itinerist - Noted

Itinerist is transforming family caregiving by helping caregivers recognize meaningful changes in a loved one’s condition before they become urgent. Our AI-enabled platform, Noted, turns everyday caregiver observations into longitudinal insights that improve communication with clinicians, strengthen family care coordination, and support earlier recognition of evolving health concerns.

Visit Itinerist

Isaac Health

Isaac Health is a leading platform for brain health and dementia care. We provide expert screening, assessment, treatment, and care management for people living with dementia, Alzheimer’s, and other cognitive conditions, and for their family caregivers. Our mission is to ensure families get the high-quality care they need within days, not months, all from the comfort of home.

Visit Isaac Health

LifeScience Technologies

LifeScience Technologies, LLC (LST) was founded to provide technology solutions to the healthcare, corporate wellness and population health industries. Specifically, our mission is to develop systems and related services that will aid medical professionals, caregivers, therapists, trainers, clinicians, teachers, and others in providing healthcare, wellness and education to their remote patients, employees, students and/or communities.

Visit LifeScience Technologies

Medivox Health

Medivox Health

Medivox Health provides an AI Clinical Concierge that helps families and caregivers remember, understand, and share medical information. Medivox empowers caregivers to manage care with clarity, confidence, and compassion.

Visit Medivox Health

Memoryboard

Memoryboard

Memoryboard is on a mission to help people with memory loss live independently longer while making caregiving less stressful for families. Built from firsthand caregiving experience, Memoryboard makes it easy for family and friends to share messages, photos, reminders, and routines that keep loved ones connected, supported, and engaged every day. We believe technology should strengthen human connection, not replace it.

Visit Memoryboard

MyMedVisit

MyMedVisit

MyMedVisit is a voice-first health app that helps family caregivers capture what happens at a doctor’s visit and turn it into clear, shareable records. With one tap, it records the visit, transcribes it, and creates a plain-language summary of diagnoses, medications, and next steps, so caregivers remember everything and keep the whole family informed. Built by a clinician-scientist, our mission is to make caregiving less overwhelming and better organized.

Visit MyMedVisit

Nurox Robotics

Nurox Robotics

Nurox is building Alva, an AI-powered care robot that understands each older adult’s routines, needs, and living environment to provide continuous, personalized support for safety, daily activities, wellness, companionship, and care coordination. Our mission is to help older adults live safely, independently, and with dignity while extending the reach of family and professional caregivers, reducing caregiver burden, and giving families greater peace of mind.

Visit Nurox Robotics

RubyWell

RubyWell

RubyWell is a technology company that helps patients, caregivers, and care teams work together to safely manage health at home. When a physician orders home health, we assist family caregivers in becoming certified home health aides, allowing them to provide Medicare-covered care for their loved ones as a paid employee of one of our partner home health agencies.

Visit RubyWell

SereniCare AI

SereniCare AI helps chronic ill oncology patients, caregivers and family members navigate the care journey by making patient centric care navigation decisions improving patient outcomes and reducing the cost of care.

Visit SereniCare AI

SimpliHere

SimpliHere was founded by Joanna Rosenberg to bridge the communication gap between caregivers and those living with neurological conditions that affect communication and mobility. Inspired by her experience caring for her mother through ALS, Joanna saw firsthand how difficult it can be to understand a loved one’s basic needs and manage the demands of daily care — and built SimpliHere to bring efficiency and peace of mind to both caregivers and patients.

Visit SimpliHere

Soaring Families

Soaring Families helps family caregivers stabilize the chaos of caregiving and build a stronger foundation for care. Through guided caregiver experiences, the Pink Book care framework, and Pink, their AI caregiver companion, they help families preserve and share the rhythm of care, reduce overwhelm, and adapt as life changes.

Visit Soaring Families

TCARE

TCARE® is an award-winning, evidence-based platform designed to improve the well-being of family caregivers. Combining over 15 years of insights, advanced data analytics, and personalized support, TCARE helps organizations reduce caregiver burnout, improve health outcomes of those they care for, and promote family stability. Partnering with managed care organizations, insurers, employers, and AAAs, TCARE delivers tailored caregiver solutions that are clinically proven to make an impact.

Visit TCARE

ThriveKin

ThriveKin is a voice-first platform that gives family caregivers the tools to run daily caregiving life while Kin, our predictive intelligence engine, monitors the caregiver’s state across voice, conversation, care activity, and financial stress signals. Kin identifies approaching crisis seven to fourteen days before it becomes visible, with mandatory human-in-the-loop gating that routes caregivers to named human resources when intervention is required.

Visit ThriveKin

Wellthy

Wellthy provides comprehensive family care infrastructure for employers, health plans, and families. Through care concierge and backup care solutions, Wellthy supports millions of families with expert guidance, care coordination, provider sourcing, advocacy, and practical support across childcare, eldercare, disability, health, and other caregiving needs. Wellthy’s experienced Care Team helps families navigate challenges both large and small, wherever and whenever care arises.

Visit Wellthy

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Zinnia

Zinnia creates engaging, calming video experiences that support people living with dementia and those who care for them. Our mission is to reduce agitation, spark meaningful connection, and make caregiving moments easier through beautiful, accessible digital tools. Backed by research and evidence-based practices, Zinnia empowers caregivers with proven solutions that improve quality of life for individuals and families.

Visit Zinnia

Caregiver Innovation Council Founding Members

Amintro

Amintro’s mission is to help transform the caregiving experience through Amintro Family, a digital community and marketplace for family caregivers supporting aging parents, spouses, relatives, friends, neighbors, and other loved ones. The platform helps caregivers connect with peers, access trusted resources, discover helpful organizations and services, and feel supported through one centralized, AI-powered environment designed to reduce isolation, overwhelm, and caregiver burnout.

CareAcademy

CareAcademy (an Activated Insights company) is transforming the way we train essential caregivers, including home and community care professionals, home health nurses, and family care providers. We make content more accessible and effective for learners, empowering agencies with training, providing technology that helps streamline operations, and revealing new insight into education’s quantifiable impact on health outcomes.

CareForward

CareForward is a technology platform designed to quickly connect individuals facing urgent, unmet needs with community members and partner organizations who can offer time, talent, or resources. Focused on crisis-oriented requests that, if left unaddressed within 7–10 days, could lead to hospitalization, institutional placement, or other negative outcomes, CareForward mobilizes a local network to provide timely, practical support.

CareScout

CareScout is on a mission to redefine the aging care experience. Through care plan development care seekers are given the tools and resources they need to find the right level of care. In addition, the care seeker then has access to credentialed providers that carry a quality badge showing they have passed a credentialing process. These providers also agree to provide a discount off services.

Care Support

CareSupport is a caregiving‑coordination platform that replaces scattered texts, notes, and phone calls with one shared carespace where professional and family caregivers, loved ones, and supporters act in sync—ensuring no critical detail ever slips through the cracks. By empowering the entire care circle with real‑time transparency, structured workflows, and dignity‑first privacy controls, we reduce caregiver burnout and raise the quality of care for every recipient.

Carey

Carey was a family care concierge that helps families handle the hassle of healthcare. We take care of time-consuming tasks like scheduling appointments, following up on referrals, managing medication refills, and calling doctors’ offices, insurers, and pharmacies so families do not have to.

Elbi

elbi was your 24/7 AI-powered guide for dementia caregiving—always available, always compassionate, always personalized. Built on a combined 60+ years of clinical expertise, and founded by a clinical psychologist, elbi offers evidence-based support to help family caregivers manage challenges, ease stress, stay ahead, and reclaim time.

Eleplan

Eleplan is an AI-powered care planning platform that helps families affected by disability, chronic illness, and aging. We make it easy to create and share personalized care plans, ensuring continuity and peace of mind across caregivers, providers, and life transitions. Our mission is to give caregivers the tools they need to be supported, informed, and prepared—today and in the future.

Givers Health

Givers Health works with healthcare organizations to deliver skills training and peer support for family caregivers and home & community based workers. The Givers Health experience is built for real-world learning and high engagement: cohort and group-based training build peer connection, our facilitators and content library bring evidence-based expertise, and our customized AI tools deliver on-demand learning through Q&A, scenario-based practice, and virtual shadowing.

Innerhive

Innerhive meets caregivers where they are—offering relief from burnout through smart organization, curated resources, and community support. It tackles the overwhelm of information with AI-powered note-taking and tools that bring clarity, not chaos. Innerhive saves time, supports presence, and evolves with each caregiving journey—for care that’s sustainable and shared.

isaac health

Isaac Health is a leading platform for brain health and dementia care. We provide expert screening, assessment, treatment, and care management for people living with dementia and their family caregivers. Our mission is to ensure families get the high-quality care they need within days, not months.

 Medivox

Medivox Health provides an AI Clinical Concierge that helps families and caregivers remember, understand, and share medical information. Medivox empowers caregivers to manage care with clarity, confidence, and compassion.

MeetCaregivers

MeetCaregivers is a technology enabled platform used for intelligent matching of caregivers and clients based on skills, schedule and personality, as well as providing the care tracking tools. Our goal is to provide a home based personalized care experience for our clients, as well as to empower the families and loved ones with technology tools to simplify care coordination and improve the caregiving experience.

RubyWell

RubyWell is a technology company that helps patients, caregivers, and care teams work together to safely manage health at home. When a physician orders home health, we assist family caregivers in becoming certified home health aides, allowing them to provide Medicare-covered care for their loved ones as a paid employee of one of our partner home health agencies.

Snug Safety

We help older adults living alone keep their independence. We also help single parents feel less anxious and more confident that if something happens to them, people will know their family needs help.

Soaring Families

Soaring Families helps family caregivers stabilize the chaos of caregiving and build a stronger foundation for care. Through guided caregiver experiences, the Pink Book care framework, and Pink, their AI caregiver companion, they help families preserve and share the rhythm of care, reduce overwhelm, and adapt as life changes.

TCare

TCARE® is an award-winning, evidence-based platform designed to improve the well-being of family caregivers. Combining over 15 years of insights, advanced data analytics, and personalized support, TCARE helps organizations reduce caregiver burnout, improve health outcomes of those they care for, and promote family stability.

Waterlily

At Waterlily, our mission is to empower individuals and families to navigate life’s most challenging moments with confidence and clarity. We believe in creating innovative solutions that transform the way people approach their health and wealth, driven by compassion and cutting-edge technology.

 Zinnia

Zinnia creates engaging, calming video experiences that support people living with dementia and those who care for them. Our mission is to reduce agitation, spark meaningful connection, and make caregiving moments easier through beautiful, accessible digital tools. Backed by research and evidence-based practices, Zinnia empowers caregivers with proven solutions that improve quality of life for individuals and families.

UPCOMING EVENTS

2026-2027 Caregiver Innovation Council Cohort Launch (July 2026)

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