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Care
intelligently.

A caregiving intelligence system for families coordinating support, communication, and care for aging loved ones — with the people who already show up for them.

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🌿 Built by a family caregiver🔒 HIPAA-first design

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Irene's care, today
Care Intelligence System
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Consideration:Irene's evening dose of Verolamex was moved 90 minutes earlier this week per Dr. Ruth's note — confirm the new time before logging tonight.

Care circle, active today

KR
Karen
Admin
BR
Bruce
Caregiver
EZ
Eliza
Caregiver
OF
Oliver
Care pro
Dr
Dr. Ruth
Listener

Today, resolved

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Morning medication — Verolamex 20mg
Logged by Bruce · 8:12 AM
✓
Grocery pickup — low sodium items
Logged by Eliza · 11:40 AM
Household
Blood pressure check & log
Assigned to Oliver · due 4:00 PM
Urgent
Confirm transport for Cardiology appt
Assigned to Karen · due tomorrow
Cross-family

How it works

Everything you need in one place
to care for your loved one — and lean on the people already around them.

Living Care isn't built for one exhausted admin holding it all together. It's built for the circle that already exists — organized, so no one has to carry it alone.

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Coordination without the politics

Bring your whole circle in — siblings, professional caregivers, doctors — with role-based permissions so everyone knows exactly what they can see and do. Delegation becomes concrete: a real task, assigned to a real person, not an abstract ask for "help."

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One source of truth

The Care Protocol holds what you've decided — medications, routines, preferences, parameters. Every module reads from it and writes back to it automatically, so the plan you set is the plan that actually gets executed.

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Insight that compounds

A single day of data tells you little. A season of it tells you everything — adherence trends, small changes worth flagging to a doctor, patterns no one person could hold in their head. Living Care gets more valuable the longer you're caring.

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A living record, not a static file

Care information doesn't sit still — it's kept current by the people already around your loved one. Every update, every completed task, every logged note feeds the same record, so nothing depends on one person's memory. It's your family's caregiving infrastructure, finally in one place.

The philosophy

You set the parameters.
The system carries them out.

Living Care runs on a simple architecture: you are always the one in control. You add the people you care for, complete what you know about them, and decide the parameters of their care. That becomes their Protocol — and everything downstream follows it.

Step 1 — You decide

Add & complete

You add Irene to Living Care and complete what you know — medications, routines, conditions, preferences, the people in her circle.

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Step 2 — The source of truth

The Care Protocol

Your decisions become Irene's Protocol — versioned, always current, and the single place every part of Living Care reads from.

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Step 3 — The system executes

Tasks, alerts, insight

The Protocol generates the actual work — tasks assigned to the right person, alerts when something needs attention, trends surfaced over time.

Nothing is inferred on your behalf. Living Care surfaces what's happening — you and your circle decide what to do about it.

Built by someone who knows

Not a hypothesis. A lived reality.

Karen Rutherford, founder of Living Care

Karen Rutherford

Founder & Product Architect, Living Care

"Caregiving has been part of my life since I was a child. I couldn't fix my grandmother's health. So I built something to help carry the weight — because no family should have to carry it alone."

Karen Rutherford is the founder and product architect of Living Care, and an active caregiver for her 98-year-old grandmother, Irene — the platform's first real user. Caregiving isn't new to Karen's life; she grew up watching her mother care for her own parents, and that experience shaped how her family moved through the world long before Karen ever wrote a line of a product spec.

After a decade spent in the sports industry and in product operations and systems design, Karen turned that same discipline toward a harder problem: building the next generation of care intelligence tools, with caregiving as the first case study. Living Care is built on product-systems thinking — the belief that most of what caregiving needs already exists in the community around a family, and that the right system's job is to organize it, not replace it.

That means designing for the reality of caregiving as it actually is — the politics, the pain, the terminal diagnoses, the unevenly distributed labor — without losing sight of the person at the center, and without burning down the one person usually holding it all together.

Active caregiverProduct & systems design10 years, sports industry opsSole founder, KGR Solutions

Our story

Built from love. Designed for reality.

🌿 Origin

"Make care feel dignified, connected, and alive."

Living Care exists because of one woman — Irene Rutherford, Karen's grandmother and the platform's first beta care recipient. The product was built from lived experience, for real families coordinating real care.

Karen Rutherford grew up commuting nearly 30 miles each morning — not by choice, but because her mother's caregiving responsibilities shaped where and how their family could live.

That experience became the seed of Living Care. The overhead that separates families from the relationships themselves — that's what we're here to remove.

Living, not clinical. Caring, not sentimental. Intelligent, not cold.

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Get in touch

We'd love to hear from you.

Whether you're a family who needs help, a professional caregiver, or a potential partner — reach out. Every message is read by a real person.

Contact

✉ karenrutherfordco@gmail.com