Bright spirits, good night’s sleep. She spent most of the call on the tomatoes finally coming in.
A call from someone who remembers.
Every single day, myabuela calls the person you love, just to talk.
Available now, no waitlist. Plans from $29 a month.
Loneliness is common, and quiet about it.
- Roughly 1 in 3
- older adults in the US lives alone.
- Millions
- go a day, sometimes several, without talking to another person.
- Most
- see family far less often than anyone would like, distance and busy lives being what they are.
A daily call does not fix any of that on its own. It is one small, dependable thing: a conversation that shows up on time, every day, whether or not anyone else can.
1. The call comes in on their own phone.
No app to install, no device to charge. myabuela calls the landline or cell phone they already use, at the same time every morning, the way a familiar voice would.
A line that’s there whenever they want it.
Loneliness doesn’t keep a schedule, so myabuela doesn’t either. Every plan includes a 24/7 line they can call back any time, on top of the daily scheduled call.
- Not just the scheduled call
- The daily call comes at the same time every morning, but myabuela also answers any time they call back, at 2pm or 2am, whenever they feel like talking.
- Still just a phone number
- No app, no PIN, no menu to navigate. The same number they already know how to call, picked up the same way every time.
- Gentle medication reminders
- Add the names and times for anything they take, and myabuela works a natural reminder into the conversation near that time, never a beeping alarm.
2. They talk about whatever is on their mind.
The call follows their lead: the weather, a grandchild’s visit, a memory from decades back. It is a conversation, not an interview, and it never pushes past a few gentle questions about sleep and mood.
Conversation is its own kind of care.
This is not a substitute for medical attention, and we are careful never to suggest it is. It is a daily habit of connection, built on the plain idea that talking regularly with someone who listens is good for memory and mood.
Talking keeps the mind active
A real back-and-forth conversation asks the brain to recall names, follow a thread, and respond in the moment, in a way that passive television or a quiet house does not.
A familiar rhythm steadies mood
Knowing a call is coming at the same time each morning gives the day a shape. For many older adults, that small anchor point does more for mood than any single activity.
Small changes are easier to notice early
A daily conversation makes it easier to notice a quieter week, a repeated story, or a change in sleep, long before it would show up on an occasional family visit.
3. Family gets a gentle update after.
Within minutes, the people on the family list get a short, plain-language note about how the call went, written the way a thoughtful neighbor would describe it.
Today’s update
Bright spirits, good night’s sleep. She spent most of the call on the tomatoes finally coming in on the back porch, and is saving a bag for Sunday dinner.
This week
Seven signals, followed over weeks
- Stress
- Mood
- Energy
- Confidence
- Mental fatigue
- Alertness
- Focus
Know how they are doing, without hovering.
Every call ends with a short, specific note, not a score. You will know she mentioned the tomatoes coming in, not just that her number is a 7.
Peace of mind, without the surveillance.
Over weeks, the gentle patterns become easier to see: a steadier sleep mention, a week that sounded quieter than usual, a story that keeps coming back.
The person on the other end of the phone stays in charge of their own day. myabuela listens and reports; it never nags, schedules their time, or takes decisions out of their hands.
What we measure: changes over time.
Familia and Legado follow seven signals from everyday conversation: stress, mood, energy, confidence, mental fatigue, alertness, and focus. We look at how your older relative changes over weeks, compared with their own usual patterns, for shifts that may be worth a closer look or a conversation with their care team.
By talking with them every day, myabuela builds a picture of their everyday rhythms, the kind of familiarity you develop when you live with someone. That daily perspective can add context between visits to a doctor, clinic, or care service and help your family notice when something seems different.
These are signals for attention, not a diagnosis. myabuela does not diagnose conditions or replace medical assessment. The short, personal note stays at the heart of every update, with trends there whenever you want to look closer.
4. Some calls turn into stories worth keeping.
When a call brings up a memory worth holding onto, Legado turns it into a short written story, dated and placed in its own era, so the family has something to reread long after the call itself is forgotten. The examples below are invented, to show the shape of the feature, not a real family’s story.
1962Young adulthood (fictional example)
The Bakery on Congress Avenue
She arrived on a Greyhound bus with one suitcase and found work within a week at a small bakery downtown. By her second month she was in charge of the ovens, and she still remembers the smell of the Saturday cinnamon rolls.
1951Childhood (fictional example)
The Year of the Blue Bicycle
A blue bicycle, bought secondhand and repainted, carried three kids to school every morning that year. He remembers the hill on Fifth Street best, and the one time the brakes gave out at the bottom of it.
1944Wartime (fictional example)
Letters to the Shipyard
Every Sunday for two years, she wrote a letter to a shipyard address she had never seen. She kept every reply in a cigar box, and can still recite the first line of the first one by heart.
What if the call sounded like you?
A daily call from a stranger’s voice, however warm, is still a stranger. With Legado, a family member records a short voice sample and gives consent, and myabuela can place the daily call in that voice instead, so it sounds like an actual daughter, son, or grandchild checking in.
The conversation itself doesn’t change, same gentle check-in, same plain-language update after, just carried in a voice they already know and love.
- A family member records about two minutes of their own voice.
- They give explicit consent for that voice to be used on the calls.
- myabuela starts calling in that voice, any time it’s turned on or off.
One daily call, three ways to go further.
Cariño
The daily call, simply done.
7 days free
$29/mo after, billed monthly
- 1 scheduled call a day, plus a 24/7 line they can call any time
- 1 family member
- 1 senior on this account
- Daily check-in call
- 24/7 anytime line, no app or waiting for the schedule
- Medication reminders during the call
- Plain-language wellbeing update after every call
Free for 7 days, then $29/mo until you cancel. Cancel during the trial and you won't be charged. Opens secure Stripe checkout · cancel any time from Billing in My account.
Familia
Most chosenFor families who want the fuller picture.
7 days free
$49/mo after, billed monthly
- Everything in Cariño, plus calls on demand
- Up to 5 family members
- Up to 4 seniors on this account
- Everything in Cariño
- Trend history over weeks and months
- Full 7-point wellness and cognitive-trend dashboard
- SMS alerts for the family
Free for 7 days, then $49/mo until you cancel. Cancel during the trial and you won't be charged. Opens secure Stripe checkout · cancel any time from Billing in My account.
Legado
Turn the calls into something to keep.
7 days free
$99/mo after, billed monthly
- Everything in Familia
- Unlimited family members
- Up to 4 seniors on this account
- Everything in Familia
- Story Capsule: calls become short written memory stories
- Optional printed keepsake of collected stories
- Use a family member's own voice for the daily call
- Priority support
Free for 7 days, then $99/mo until you cancel. Cancel during the trial and you won't be charged. Opens secure Stripe checkout · cancel any time from Billing in My account.
Built for dignity, not surveillance.
myabuela is built on these commitments.
- Their own phone
- The call always goes to a phone the person already uses, never a new device they have to learn.
- Their own lead
- The conversation is led by them, never a script read at them.
- Plain language
- The headline update sent to the family is always written in plain language, never reduced to a single score or a red, yellow, or green light, even though a fuller set of wellness signals is available underneath for families who want to look closer.
- Companionship, not a clinic
- We treat the daily call as a companionship habit, not a clinical tool. It is designed to sit comfortably alongside whatever medical care someone already has, not to replace it, and our wellbeing notes are written to be read by family, not interpreted by a doctor.
- Never sold
- Transcripts and summaries are used only to generate that day’s update for the family you choose, and to flag language that genuinely needs a human follow-up. They are never sold, and never used to advertise to the person on the call.
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The weeks between check-ups are the quiet ones. Most changes begin there, and almost no one is watching.
Without a daily call, the first sign can be an emergency.
Your physician or caregiver visits on Day 0 and Day 28. In between, a slow slide in sleep, energy or mood has no witness. She says she is fine, because she is used to being fine. By the time anyone knows, an ambulance is already on its way.
With a daily call, the dip shows up in days.
The same ordinary call, on the phone she already has, notices when her usual pattern moves outside her own baseline. Your family gets a quiet note. A son, a daughter or a grandchild picks up the phone or drives over, and the line turns back up before it becomes a crisis.
No app to learn, no device to wear, nothing new to remember. Just a call from someone who remembers. MyAbuela is a companionship service, not a medical device or an emergency service.