What we believe about aging, caregiving, and consent
They shape what CAEVO does, and what we choose not to do.
• Key Document Planning and Sharing • Easy Family Communication • Recommended Next Steps • Financial Resources • Aging Well Index • Document Vault • Benefits Finder • Care Stage Tracker • Family Loop • Consent-first Sharing • Ask EVO • 256-bit Encryption • No ads, ever
Dignity Doesn't End When Someone Needs Help
One purpose, held in three different ways: why we exist, what we’re doing about it now, and the world we’re working toward.
Our purpose
To give every family a clear path through aging and caregiving.
Our mission
Rest-of-life planning, not end-of-life planning. We begin in the years before a crisis, at home, the most to gain and the most to enjoy.
Our vision
A world where older adults age on their own terms, caregivers are never left to guess, and no benefit goes unclaimed for lack of a guide.
What that looks like in practice:
The Care Stage Library, filtered to one family. Their condition, their stage, their state, their coverage. Checklists, conversations, legal steps, and the benefits that actually apply where they live, on one screen.
The Six Decisions We Don't Relitigate
Every product argument we have ends up being about one of these.
01
Consent before connection.
Families choose what they share, and with whom. Always.
02
Plan early.
The best time to plan is before the phone rings.
03
Grounded before generative.
A confident wrong answer about a benefit costs a family months.
04
Depth over generic.
Your state, your stage, your family. National averages are not a plan.
05
Built to know its limits.
CAEVO guides. It works alongside your doctor, lawyer, or advisor.
06
The aging adult comes first.
A first-class user with their own hub, not the subject of someone else's app.
How Family Consent for Care Data Actually Works
Take decision 01 and decision 06 together, and you get the Family Loop: a mother decides what her daughter sees, one item at a time, Removed. She keeps her financial picture to herself because it is hers. She might share her medication list and one document. She keeps her financial picture to herself, because she hasn’t chosen to share it, and nothing in CAEVO requires her to.
What we choose not to build.
Decision 03 rules out a confident-sounding assistant that guesses at benefits it hasn’t verified. Decision 01 rules out sharing that happens by default and waits to be noticed. Decision 06 rules out a platform where the aging adult is a case file instead of a user. Because of decision three, CAEVO does not guess at benefits it has not verified.
Why We Hold This Line
These six decisions didn’t start as a product framework. They started with two people who watched caregiving arrive at their own door with no map, and decided the fragmentation they lived through wasn’t something the next family should have to accept as normal. Every one answers something we wished had existed while we watched.
Built from lived experience.
We watched people we love care for people they love, through cancer, dementia, and a fall that changed everything overnight. That is why CAEVO exists.
As we watched our own parents age, we saw something bigger than caregiving. They wanted to live their lives more fully, and their families wanted to support them through every chapter. Plan early, and it is a conversation around the kitchen table.
Lauren Howard & Jon Howard · Co-founders
What families are saying — on both sides of care
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CAEVO for caregivers or for people planning their own aging?
Both. Every account has both hubs, and you can add and switch between more than one family, like a spouse’s parents and your own.
Is CAEVO free?
To start, yes. Essentials is free, always, for one person. It includes both libraries and the everyday tools on each side, with no credit card required.
Is my family's information safe?
Yes. It’s encrypted with bank-level, 256-bit security and stored on US infrastructure, and the person aging controls what’s shared. See how we protect your data
Will I see everything about my parent?
No, you see what they choose to share. That’s on purpose. It keeps CAEVO from feeling like it’s watching anyone.
Can CAEVO find benefits I qualify for?
It shows you the programs in your state and county, like waivers, transportation, meals, respite, and legal aid, across all 50 states and DC.
My advisor, attorney, home care agency, or community offered me CAEVO. Do I pay?
If your organization covers it, you don’t need a paid plan. Check with them, or contact us to confirm before you sign up for anything.
Stay Informed
The Conversation Nobody Wants to Have With Their Parents (and How to Start It)
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Sandwich Generation, Meet Your New To-Do List
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The Conversation Nobody Wants to Have With Their Parents (and How to Start It)
Most families wait for a crisis to talk about aging. Here’s how to open the conversation before you’re forced to — and what to actually ask.
The Conversation Nobody Wants to Have With Their Parents (and How to Start It)
Most families wait for a crisis to talk about aging. Here’s how to open the conversation before you’re forced to — and what to actually ask.
Start With Where Your Hours Actually Go
Tell us what takes up your week, and we will tell you plainly whether CAEVO helps. If it does, we start with a pilot small enough to finish.
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