Essember helps a family quietly look out for an aging parent living on their own, without taking over their life or yours.
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Americans care for an adult loved one. Most hold jobs while they do it.
Source: AARP & National Alliance for Caregiving, Caregiving in the U.S. 2025When a parent lives on their own, the small unknowns add up, and they often land on adult children who live far away, or who are tied up with work and managing their own families and households.
Not surveillance. A shared, gentle picture of how a loved one is doing, with the people they trust.
What's coming up, what needs refilling, and a backup ride for the days family can't make it.
Appointments and prescription refills in one place, seen by the person being cared for and whoever they've said can see it. A refill running low gets noticed before it becomes a week without the medicine.
When you or someone in the family can drive her, wonderful. That's still the plan. But life happens: you're stuck in a meeting, schedules don't line up, or she'd rather not drive herself that day. For those moments there's a third option: book a ride through an established ride service, all within the Essember app. We don't drive it ourselves; we just make sure she still gets there.
A gentle reminder when it's time, and an easy way to let the people she trusts know she's taken it.
She picks the way that feels right to her, often after talking it over with whoever helps her, and she can change it any time.
Just a tap. She gets a reminder, taps to say it's taken, and the people she's chosen get a quick note.
A personal sign-off. She adds a short PIN or her signature, so you know the note came from her.
A short video. A quick clip of her taking the dose, sent only to the people she chose. It opens in the app, there's no download button, and it disappears after 15 minutes.
Whichever she picks, it's seen by someone who cares about her, not judged by an algorithm.
Everyone she's invited, on the same page, so the load gets shared instead of landing on one person.
One up-to-date picture of her medicines, notes and the things that need doing, seen by the people she's chosen to include. No more five separate phone calls to catch everyone up.
And it makes it easy to split the work. Maybe your brother takes her to Tuesday's appointment, you sit with her to cancel the subscriptions she never wanted, and your sister walks her through a bill that slipped past due. Everyone can see who's handling what, so nothing falls through the cracks.
She decides who's included and what each person sees.
Read-only. Did the deposit arrive, did the bill get paid.
We don't move money or touch accounts. It is read-only, through a bank connection the person being cared for approves, and they decide who sees what. You see the things that otherwise go unnoticed: a deposit that didn't arrive, a bill that didn't get paid, a subscription renewing every month that nobody remembers signing up for.
Essember is built by Stillwell Care, Inc., a Delaware corporation based in North Carolina, founded by a disabled veteran and a small team who believe looking out for an aging parent should never mean taking away their independence.
We'll reach out as we bring families on. No spam, just word when there's something real to try.
Thank you. We'll be in touch as Essember opens to families.