Keen to better manage your care? There’s an app for that
Caregiving comes with admin. Lots of it. We’re talking organising, scheduling, liaising, listing, researching, tracking, ordering, emailing, people-managing, advocating… all of this and more on top of the day-to-day caring for yourself or a loved one who needs support.
Caregiver Andrea Torres has a son with several diagnoses, including autism, who she co-parents with his dad. Her son has a large care team, numerous supports and a busy schedule, all of which was proving tricky – and stressful – to manage.
Enter Heba, a care companion app designed by caregivers like Andrea, for caregivers like Andrea.
“The thing I love about Heba is the ability to keep everything in one place – and all of my son’s caregivers have immediate access to any changes because it’s all on our phones,” she says.
“If a medication dosing changes I can put it in the app and when he goes to his dad’s house, they can look in the app to make sure they remember the change. Or I can look later that day, when I am giving meds, because there’s no doubt I will have already forgotten the new dosage!”
With features including a shareable care passport, reminder setting and a journal, Heba keeps you across your child’s medications, appointments, care team and more. It can store all of your child’s documents and also allows you to track things like mood, habits, sleep, health symptoms, seizures and diet.
“I love being able to see trends over time,” says Andrea of Heba’s tracking feature. “It is so incredibly helpful to be able to notice trends and changes and also to be able to share this information with my son’s therapeutic and medical teams when making plans for care.”
Heba offers both a comprehensive free version and Heba Plus subscription, with premium features. In addition to care-management tools, the app also provides 24/7 access to personalised advice and guidance, by way of their AI-powered support tool, Heba Assistant.
With this care companion in hand, carers can toss their mountains of paper folders and stop endlessly scrolling the internet. They can forget having to remember medication doses during an emergency – and stop retelling their medical history every time they see a new specialist.
With Heba you’ve got your key care information, securely stored and all in one place – at your fingertips.
“I am so grateful for this app,” says Andrea. “I am grateful for all that the Heba team is doing and planning for the future. It fills a huge need for us parents and those who care for our children.”