if you're reading this, it's probably 11pm

You're the sibling who handles Mom's stuff.

It started with one prescription refill. Then the cardiologist's portal password. Then the EOB she didn't open. Now the long-term care insurer wants a form notarized, the estate attorney sent a draft, and you can't remember which sibling has the password to her Gmail.

happens weekly

You forward a discharge summary to the group chat as a screenshot because Mom sent it to the wrong sibling.

happens monthly

An EOB arrives, nobody disputes it in time, and the bill goes to collections.

happens once

The neurologist switches her medication and only one of you knows. The pharmacy fills the old prescription anyway.

happens too late

The long-term care policy lapses because the renewal notice went to her old AOL address she stopped checking.

You're not failing at caregiving. The tools just weren't built for this. Group texts, shared Google Docs, taking turns reading Mom's email — they all break the moment her care touches more than three providers. And every aging parent's care touches twenty.

the solution that didn't exist yet

One inbox for Mom's care.

A private email address dedicated to your parent's care. Every doctor, pharmacy, insurer, attorney, advisor, and care agency sends to the same place — and the whole family sees what arrives, in real time. Nothing for Mom to learn. Nothing for her to install. Built specifically for adult children of aging parents.

Free to start · Private by default · HIPAA-aware design

Your parent's private care inbox
helen-smith-AB12@lovedone.app

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how it works

Three steps. Ten minutes. No new apps for Mom.

You sign up. Your parent gets a private inbox address. You hand it to her doctors. That's it — the rest happens by email, which everyone already knows how to use.

1

Sign up & add your parent

Create a free account and add the loved one you're caring for. We instantly generate a private inbox address just for them, like helen-smith-AB12@lovedone.app.

2

Give the address to her doctors

Print the wallet card. Update her chart. Email her cardiologist's office. Every intake form already has an "alternate contact email" field — that's the one.

3

The whole family stays in the loop

When a message arrives, every sibling you've invited sees it. Discuss it in-app, mark who's handling it, never lose a discharge summary again.

what you get

Built for the way families actually coordinate care.

Loved One is the inbox. It's also the shared system underneath — so when a discharge summary arrives, the right family member knows it's their turn to read it.

One address, all providers

Doctors, pharmacies, insurers, attorneys, home-care agencies — all send to the same place. No more "did the discharge papers come to you or to me?"

The whole family, one workspace

Invite siblings, your dad, your aunt — anyone helping with Mom's care. Everyone sees the same messages with read indicators so you know who's seen what.

Private by default

Message contents never leave the app. Family members get a "you have a new message" notification with a sign-in link — never the contents — so sensitive health info doesn't sit in personal Gmail.

Mom doesn't have to learn anything

Two opt-in modes. Add the address as a second email and providers CC both — Mom keeps her own inbox. Or make it her primary, and we auto-forward to her Gmail. Her experience doesn't change either way.

Never lose history

Every message about Mom's care is searchable and dated. The day you need to remember when her ACE inhibitor changed — it's right there.

Optional AI assistant

Ask "what's changed about Mom's meds this month?" Get a summary across every provider email, in one answer. The assistant only reads what you choose to share.

what it handles

Aging-parent care isn't one inbox. It's twenty.

Caring for an older parent means coordinating across more institutions than most adults have ever dealt with in their own lives. Every category below sends email. Most of it is time-sensitive. None of it should live in one sibling's personal Gmail.

Healthcare

  • Primary care physician
  • Specialists (cardiology, neurology, oncology…)
  • Hospital discharge summaries
  • Pharmacy refill notifications
  • Medical records release forms
  • Patient-portal password resets

Insurance

  • Medicare Advantage / Medigap
  • Part D prescription plan
  • EOBs (Explanation of Benefits)
  • Prior authorization correspondence
  • Appeals and disputes
  • Annual enrollment notices

Long-term care

  • LTC insurance policy renewals
  • Home-care agency invoices
  • Assisted-living facility communications
  • Geriatric care manager updates
  • Medicaid waiver paperwork

Financial

  • Bank and brokerage statements
  • Social Security correspondence
  • Pension and annuity notices
  • 1099s, K-1s, and tax forms
  • Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs)
  • Financial advisor reviews

Legal & estate

  • Estate-planning attorney drafts
  • Power of attorney updates
  • Trust document amendments
  • Probate filings
  • Notarization reminders

Real estate

  • Home insurance renewals
  • Property tax bills
  • HOA correspondence
  • Reverse mortgage statements
  • Listing agent emails when selling the house

Every one of these sends correspondence by email — and every one of these has an "alternate contact" field on their forms. Loved One is what you put in that field.

why this is different

Loved One isn't a family calendar app.

The last decade of "family apps" — Cozi, Yohana, Life360, FamilyWall — were built around the same person: a parent managing children. Aging-parent care is the inverse problem, and almost nothing about the kid-coordination playbook transfers.

Family apps for kids
  • Primary artifact: the calendar.
  • Information flow: parent → other parent.
  • Vendors: two or three (school, sports, pediatrician).
  • Decisions: "who picks up Tuesday?"
  • Time horizon: this week.
  • Sensitivity: low — soccer schedules aren't HIPAA.
  • Subject: children, who you legally control.
Loved One — for aging parents
  • Primary artifact: the correspondence (emails, PDFs, EOBs).
  • Information flow: twenty institutions → the whole family.
  • Vendors: twenty or more across six categories.
  • Decisions: medical, financial, legal — often time-critical.
  • Time horizon: spans years of policy and medical history.
  • Sensitivity: HIPAA, financial, legal — has to be private by default.
  • Subject: a parent, who has autonomy and dignity to preserve.
The autonomy thing matters. The hardest part of caring for an aging parent isn't logistics — it's deciding when to step in. Loved One is designed so your parent stays the lead on her own life. Two opt-in modes let her keep her own inbox, or hand it over with auto-forwarding. The family sees what arrives. She doesn't lose anything. Nobody pretends she's a child.
questions

The short FAQ.

Will doctors actually accept this address?

Yes — because you're not asking them to do anything new. Every patient intake form already has an "alternate contact email" field. You're just filling it with a useful value.

What about HIPAA?

HIPAA's personal-representative rule lets a designated family member specify a confidential communication address that providers must use. You're not asking for cooperation — you're exercising a right your parent already has.

Does Mom have to give up her own email?

No. She can keep her own inbox exactly as it is. The Loved One address is just a second contact for providers — or, if she prefers, the primary one with automatic forwarding to her personal Gmail.

Who else in my family can see it?

Only people you invite. You can assign roles — owner, coordinator, viewer — so a more distant relative can be in the loop without having edit access.

What happens to the messages?

They live inside the Loved One app behind a sign-in. Notifications sent to personal email never contain the original message — only "you have a new message" with a link. Sensitive health information never sits in personal Gmail.

Can I change the address later?

Yes. Addresses are designed to be permanent because providers may keep them for years, but you can rotate to a new one from settings. The old address forwards for 90 days before it stops.

Ready to give Mom one inbox?

Free to start. Takes about ten minutes. The hardest part is deciding which sibling to invite first.

Building on the same platform?

Loved One is built on Sandwich, the AI-native care layer for families and agencies. For developer docs, the MCP server, agency tools, and the Sandwich Pipe webhook spec, visit joinsandwich.com.