Most caregiving burns people out because one person carries it invisibly. CaresCircle builds a real circle — family, friends, neighbors, professional caregivers — coordinated by Sage AI. When everyone can see who's doing what, nobody disappears.
53 million Americans are family caregivers. Most carry it alone. One sentence about your person is all it takes to start.
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Robert's circle
4 caregivers, 3 family, 1 physician — last sync 2h ago
Sarah M. logged morning visit — vitals stable, appetite good, walked to mailbox
co-op.care caregiver · 2h ago
Dr. Emdur reviewed week — adjusted Lisinopril, no new flags
Physician · 4h ago
Diane (daughter) picked up prescription, dropped off groceries
Family · yesterday
Kevin (son, NYC) confirmed Medicare Part D refill on file
Family · yesterday
Yours starts blank — Sage builds it with you
The group text that never ends
One shared care timeline everyone can see
"I didn't know she had an appointment"
Shared calendar with automatic updates
One sibling does everything
Tasks divided, visible, acknowledged
"How was Mom today?"
Caregiver notes after every visit
Guilt about not doing enough
See exactly how everyone contributes
No idea what the doctor said
Medical updates shared with the whole circle
Everyone who cares. Not just family.
The daughter who lives nearby
Coordinates daily care, talks to doctors, manages medications
The son across the country
Handles finances, insurance calls, researches options
The neighbor who checks in
Brings meals, notices changes, sends quick updates
The professional caregiver
Provides companion care through co-op.care, logs every visit
The grandchild who visits weekends
Records stories, brings joy, learns family history
The physician
Reviews care plans, signs LMNs, monitors from a distance
Tell Sage one sentence about who you're caring for. "My mom has early Alzheimer's and lives alone in Denver." That's enough to start.
Add family, neighbors, caregivers, physicians. Everyone gets their own view. The daughter sees the full picture. The neighbor sees Tuesday tasks. The physician sees clinical updates.
Tasks, updates, appointments, stories — everything flows through the circle. When someone does something, everyone knows. When someone needs help, the circle sees it.
When the circle needs reinforcement — a trained caregiver, respite care, a physician review — co-op.care is right there. Worker-owned. HSA/FSA eligible. Already connected.
Most families don't fail at care because no one helps — they fail because no one knows who covers what. Build the circle, see the gaps, fill them before a crisis does it for you.
The numbers are from AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving’s most recent national report. They explain why coordination tools aren’t optional.
63M
Americans are family caregivers
1 in 4 adults
45%
Increase in caregivers over the past decade
nearly 20M more since 2015
$1T+
Annual economic value of unpaid care
more than total Medicaid LTC spending
20+ hrs
Average hours of care per week
equal to an unpaid part-time job
The primary failure mode in family caregiving is not physical — it is logistical and communicative. Missed information, duplicated effort, and the guilt of invisible contributions drive burnout faster than the physical demands of care.
50% of caregivers say caregiving has negatively affected their finances. One in five cannot afford basic needs like food. A quarter have taken on debt. The financial toll compounds with coordination failures — duplicated purchases, missed HSA/FSA benefits, no shared view of what has already been spent.
Despite 44% providing high-intensity care — including complex medical tasks — only 22% of family caregivers have received any formal training. CaresCircle connects families to co-op.care professional caregivers and physician oversight that fills this gap.
70% of family caregivers hold jobs while providing care. 18 million are hourly wage workers with no flexible leave or supportive benefits. The coordination overhead of caregiving without tools is absorbed entirely by people who can least afford it.
Sources: Caregiving in the US 2025, AARP & National Alliance for Caregiving; AARP Valuing the Invaluable 2026 report ($1T economic value figure). Not a substitute for medical advice. Reviewed April 2026.
$7,242
Average annual out-of-pocket cost per family caregiver
See how co-op.care reduces this
24 hrs
Average hours per week spent caregiving — without coordination tools
Share the load with a circle
36%
Of family caregivers rate their situation as highly stressful
Worker-owned care changes the math
The circle doesn't eliminate the work. It makes sure nobody carries it alone.
Add the SolvingHealth connector to Claude and coordinate care from your AI. Manage tasks, check on your person, update the circle.
Claude Desktop MCP Config
"carescircle": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@anthropic-ai/mcp-remote",
"https://www.solvinghealth.com/mcp"]
}Don't have Claude? Get it free at claude.ai or use the chat and voice widgets on this page.
Free to start. Sage builds the circle from one sentence about your person.
Upgrade to co-op.care ($59/mo) to add professional caregivers, physician reviews, and HSA/FSA savings.
Start your circle — freeCaresCircle is one product in a physician-governed health intelligence ecosystem built for families and the clinicians who serve them.
The agentic intelligence engine powering the ecosystem. AI that works for patients, not paperwork.
Revenue intelligence and patient engagement tools — for physicians who want their practice to run better.
Worker-owned companion care. HSA/FSA eligible. Caregivers earn equity; families get consistency.
Emergency access, care preferences, and advance directives — one tap, any device, any emergency room.
A living identity map that helps families understand what matters to the people they love.
Every health claim in this ecosystem goes through specialist attestation before reaching families.
Reviewed by a physician
Content reviewed by Josh Emdur, DO — Board-Certified Hospitalist, 50-state licensed. Last reviewed April 2026. Sources: National Alliance for Caregiving 2020, AARP, CDC National Center for Health Statistics, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
The National Alliance for Caregiving estimates that 53 million Americans provide unpaid care to an adult family member. The economic value of this care exceeds $470 billion annually — more than total Medicaid spending on long-term care. Yet this workforce is largely invisible, uncoordinated, and unsupported. Most family caregivers report that their greatest source of stress is not the physical demands of care, but the logistical and communicative burden: missed information, duplicated effort, and the guilt of feeling they are never doing enough.
The primary coordination failure is fragmentation. One sibling handles medical appointments, another manages finances, a neighbor checks in informally, and a professional caregiver visits twice a week — but none of them are on the same page. CaresCircle provides the shared layer that connects all of these people around a single care story, without requiring everyone to use the same app or attend the same meeting.
Caregiver burnout — characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced sense of personal accomplishment — affects an estimated 40–70% of family caregivers (AARP, 2020). The strongest predictors are not the severity of care needs but the absence of support, the perception of being alone in the role, and the lack of recognition for invisible contributions.
Research on co-caregiving models finds that distributing tasks explicitly — with visibility into who is doing what — reduces both objective burden and subjective guilt. When every family member can see the full picture, the conversation shifts from "why don't you do more?" to "what can I take off your plate?" CaresCircle makes contributions visible, tasks assignable, and care timelines shared — so the emotional weight is distributed alongside the practical one.
Effective family care coordination requires four information streams to stay synchronized: medical updates (appointments, diagnoses, medication changes), daily observations (behavioral changes, functional status, mood), logistical tasks (transportation, household management, prescription pickups), and emotional check-ins (how is Mom really doing; how is the nearby sibling holding up). Most families manage all four through a combination of text threads, phone calls, and memory — a system that fails predictably under stress.
CaresCircle structures these streams into a shared care timeline. Professional caregivers from co-op.care log notes after every visit. The CareGoals advance directive lives alongside daily care notes so the long-term wishes inform the daily decisions. ComfortCard stores emergency information accessible to any care team member from any device.
A professional caregiver who is integrated into the family circle — rather than operating as a separate contractor unknown to most family members — provides dramatically better care. They observe more, report more accurately, and feel more accountable when they know their observations reach the entire care team. Worker-owned caregivers through co-op.care earn $25–28/hour with benefits and equity, producing caregiver retention rates far above the 77% annual industry turnover average.
CaresCircle is designed so that a professional caregiver can be added to the circle with the same interface as a family member. Their visit notes, observations, and alerts appear in the shared timeline alongside family updates — creating a seamless handoff between the people who are paid to care and the people who love the person being cared for.
The best time to set up a care circle is before a crisis. A hospitalization, a fall, a new serious diagnosis, or the first noticeable cognitive decline are all natural triggers — but by then, the family is already in reactive mode. Starting a circle when a parent is still largely independent allows the family to establish communication patterns, document baseline function, and build the shared context that makes urgent decisions easier.
The FallRisks home safety assessment is a natural starting point — a structured walkthrough that gives the family a shared picture of the home environment and produces a concrete action list. The Quality Death advance care planning conversation ensures that when hard decisions come, the family already knows what their loved one would want.
Sources: National Alliance for Caregiving 2020, AARP Caregiving in the US 2020, CDC NCHS, JAGS. Not a substitute for medical advice. Content reviewed by Josh Emdur, DO, April 2026.
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