Caregiving
You are doing your best
Nobody tells you what the second month of caregiving feels like. If you are holding a job, a relationship, and a life while showing up for someone with a chronic condition, you are doing your best.
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Insights on caregiving, product updates, latest research update and how Dez works for families and healthcare providers.
HealthcareDementia: The Care Imperative Beyond the Clinic
More than 55 million people live with dementia. A clinical and economic analysis for health systems and insurers: 3.5-year diagnostic delay, $781B US cost, blood-based biomarkers, lecanemab and donanemab, unpaid caregiver burden, and up to 45–49% potentially preventable cases.
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CaregivingShock of Becoming a Caregiver Overnight
One minute you're living a normal life. The next, you're coordinating medications, appointments, and a whole new life you hadn't imagined.
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HealthcareAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS): When Care Extends Beyond the Clinic
ALS care is built around clinic visits every few months, yet the disease progresses every day at home. This piece looks at who bears that gap, what changes between visits, and why continuity drives outcomes in practice, not a better snapshot on its own.
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CaregivingAnother Fitbit Is Not the Answer
Trackers and apps assume the person manages their own health. Family caregivers need something else: a way to make what they see every day count in clinical conversations.
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HealthcareEveryone is in the Health OS Race but Missing the Point Entirely
Big tech is sprinting to own Health OS. For 1.8 billion wearable users that matters. But 43 million people died from non-communicable diseases in 2021, and the device-to-consumer stack was never built for them.
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HealthcareExplaining Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
For millions of families, care is not occasional. It is managed every day. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) shows why home-based signals, timing, and access matter as much as clinical visits.
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CaregivingWhen Grandma Lives Alone
More and more seniors want to age in place. When a tree falls in the forest, who notices? We do.
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HealthcareThe Real Contradiction in Healthcare
Healthcare is supposed to be evidence-based, yet the majority of real-world health evidence is never captured. Most care happens at home.
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ResearchResearch Breakthroughs: February 13-19 2026
A comprehensive overview of the most impactful developments in AI, robotics, pharmaceuticals, and clinical research for neurodegenerative diseases and cerebral palsy.
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HealthcareHome-Based Healthcare Intelligence: The Next Deep Tech Frontier in Healthcare
Care gets more complex outside of the hospital environment
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Research Breakthroughs: February 5-12 2026
A summary of the key research breakthroughs from the week of February 5–12 2026 in AI, robotics, pharmaceuticals, and clinical research for neurodegenerative diseases and cerebral palsy.
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CaregivingThe Moment They Forget Your Name
Humour when you need it the most
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CaregivingMy Mom's Biggest Fear About Aging
What to say when your parents say "I don't want to be a burden"
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CaregivingHow a Humble Meal Opened the Flood Gates
The Caregiving Tax
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CaregivingIndependence Does Not Equal Being Alone
There is something nobody tells you about caring for someone you love.
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CaregivingWhat Our First Prototype Taught Us
Dez did not begin as a product. It began as a necessity.
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CaregivingThe Invisible Work in Caregiving
Why checklists aren't enough when lives are messy
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CaregivingThe Caregiver Wish List
100 Caregivers
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CaregivingReimagine Caregiving
What we saw at home that no healthcare system could fix
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