Inner Circle · Private family connection

The people
who matter,
connected with care.

Inner Circle is a private space for the people an older person trusts most. Not a monitoring dashboard. Not an alert feed. A place where family stays genuinely connected — and where the person decides everything that is shared.

👤 Person at the centre 🔒 Nothing shared without consent 👶 Grandchildren welcome ↩ Always reversible
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Margaret's Circle · 4 members
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Emily
Granddaughter · just now
Gran, I made a cake today and saved you the biggest piece! 🎂 See you Sunday!
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Sarah
Daughter · 2h ago
Morning Mum! Hope you slept well. David and I will call tonight after dinner 📞
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Your circle, your terms

You decide who
is in your Circle.

Inner Circle begins with the people you name. A son in London. A daughter nearby. A grandchild. A trusted neighbour. You choose who joins, what role they have, and what they can see. Nobody enters your Circle without your explicit invitation.

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    You hold the invitation
    Nobody can join your Circle without a direct invitation from you. No email link sent by a family member. No automatic inclusion.
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    Child-friendly access for grandchildren
    A separate, age-appropriate view lets younger grandchildren send photos, voice notes and drawings — without access to anything else in the app.
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    Different roles, different views
    A trusted carer sees what you've agreed they need. A grandchild sees a simpler, warmer space. The platform adjusts to the relationship, not the other way around.
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My Circle
4 members · invited by you
Family
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Margaret — You
Circle owner · full access
Owner
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Sarah (daughter)
Family · Maidstone
Family
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David (son)
Family · London
Family
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Emily (granddaughter)
Child access · age 9
Child
Trusted others
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Jean (neighbour)
Trusted contact · limited view
Trusted
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What Sarah sees
You control this · change anytime
🔒 Only you can change these settings. Sarah cannot alter what she sees.
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Consent architecture

You choose what
your family sees.

The notifications your family receives are not generated by Assistiv. They are sent by you — configured in advance, in plain language, at a level of detail you are comfortable with. Your family receives the reassurance you decided to give them.

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You name what you want to share
During setup, you choose which signals your family can receive. Each is described in plain terms — no technical language.
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Assistiv sends what you've decided
When a signal matches what you've configured, the notification goes out — in your words, at your threshold, on your schedule.
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You can change anything, at any time
Switch off any signal, change who sees it, remove a member. No permission needed from anyone else.

"Sarah doesn't get a monitoring dashboard. She gets the messages I decided to send her — just automatically, so I don't have to remember."

The distinction that matters
What the family receives

Reassurance, not surveillance.

The notifications Sarah receives don't come from a monitoring system. They come from her mother's choices, expressed in warm, human language. The difference in how that feels — to both of them — is the entire point.

Three types of notification
Warm updates — positive signals sent proactively. Morning routine going well. A photo from the garden. An active day.
Gentle nudges — quiet flags when something looks a little different. Invites a call, not a crisis response.
Connection moments — photos, voice notes and messages from the Circle feed, shared directly from the app.
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Today
Sarah's Inner Circle updates
This morning
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7:52 am
Mum's morning is going well ☀️
Kettle on at 7:48, front door opened at 8:10 — looks like she's been to the garden. She wanted you to know when mornings are good.
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10:23 am
New photo from Mum
"The roses are out early this year — thought you'd like to see them."
This afternoon
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2:15 pm
Mum's afternoon looks quieter than usual
She asked us to let you know if things seemed slower — it might be nothing, but worth a call when you have a moment.
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Memories
Margaret's life story · family-built
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Our first home — Faversham, 1972
Added by Margaret · with David and Sarah
"We moved in on a Friday and had no curtains for two weeks. The neighbours thought we were very bohemian."
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Sarah and David added photos
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Whitstable — every August
Added by Sarah · family memory
"Mum always said the oysters were revolting but she had them anyway because Dad liked them."
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Sarah added this memory
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Memories

A life record,
built together.

Memories is a structured digital life record — stories, photographs and moments that the person builds in their own words, contributed to by family, and held privately within the Circle.

This is not a photo album. It is a clinical and personal resource. Life story work is an evidence-based intervention in cognitive frailty and early dementia care. A structured record of who someone is becomes invaluable — therapeutically, clinically, and humanly — if they later lose the ability to tell it themselves.

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    Reminiscence as intervention
    Engaging with life memories is a validated approach in cognitive frailty care. Memories makes this available continuously, not just in a clinical session.
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    Family-contributed
    Children and grandchildren can add their own memories to the record — photographs, anecdotes, family events. The person approves everything before it appears.
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    Connected to the care wallet
    With consent, Memories feeds into the Assistiv care wallet — giving clinicians and care teams a human picture of the person, not just a clinical summary.
What Inner Circle is — and isn't

Connection restored.
Not surveillance dressed up.

The risk with any family-facing platform for older people is that it becomes a covert monitoring tool with a warm coat on. Inner Circle is designed from the ground up to be the opposite. Every architectural decision starts with the person's agency.

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The person configures everything
No family member can change what they see. No notification can be enabled without the person's explicit choice. The settings screen belongs to Margaret, not Sarah.
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Warm language, not clinical alerts
Notifications are written in the voice of the relationship, not the system. "Mum's morning looks quieter than usual" is a different message — and a different relationship — than "No activity detected."
Always reversible
Any signal can be turned off. Any member can be removed. The person can leave Inner Circle entirely. The system follows them — not the other way around.