Who CareHaven is for

CareHaven is for you — the family member or friend who carries the day-to-day weight of caring for someone. Not a paid clinician, not a nurse on a shift. The person who remembers the meds, packs for the appointment, calms the hard moment, and lies awake wondering if something got missed.

The app is built to speak your language, not doctor-speak. Where everyday words work, it uses everyday words. Where a clinical term matters, you can tap it to see what it means in plain language.

The people you might be caring for

CareHaven was made for the full range of complex care, for children and for adults:

• Autism
• ADHD
• Epilepsy and seizure disorders
• Cerebral palsy
• Down syndrome
• Intellectual disability and developmental delay
• Feeding and eating challenges, including ARFID and tube feeding
• Swallowing and mobility needs
• Dementia and elder care
• Mental-health conditions

You can keep a separate profile for each person you look after — up to twelve on one device — and the app holds each of them differently.

How CareHaven fits the person, not the diagnosis

Here is the part that makes CareHaven feel less overwhelming than a one-size-fits-all app: it quietly reshapes itself around the specific person you are caring for, and stays simple for everyone else.

When you set up a profile, you add a few basics — a name to start, then, when you are ready, things like a birthday, sex, and any diagnoses. From that, the app decides which tools and guidance to show for that person and tucks the rest out of the way. A nine-year-old's profile does not show fall-risk or end-of-life surfaces. An older adult living with memory changes does. A profile with a feeding diagnosis lights up the mealtime-safety tools. You never wade through features meant for someone else's loved one.

CareHaven does not diagnose. The diagnoses you enter are simply how the app knows which tools and reminders fit — reference text you can carry to your own clinician, never medical direction from the app.

You stay in control

The fit is a sensible starting point, not a locked door. For any profile, you can force a section to Show when you want to track something the defaults would not suggest, or Hide one that does not fit your situation, and return any section to Auto at any time. What you change for one person never changes anyone else. You can find these controls in Settings, under Menus & Quick Log.

A tool can also turn on simply because you used it. Log a seizure for someone with no epilepsy diagnosis, and the seizure tools quietly become available — without the app ever implying a diagnosis that person does not have.

When the care is not special-needs-specific

Not everyone you care for has a named diagnosis, and not every day is about a condition. If you would rather keep things plain — tracking, notes, appointments, a handoff for a sitter, without condition-specific surfaces — you can turn on General Caregiver Mode. It hides the special-needs-specific tools and leaves you the everyday essentials. Available You can switch it back off whenever your needs change. (You will find it in Make it yours.)

If you are just starting out

A new or unclear diagnosis is its own kind of overwhelm. CareHaven includes short, plain-language Where to start guides for several common situations, plus a one-tap way to surface the parts of the app most relevant to a given diagnosis. Available It is meant to give you a calm first step rather than a wall of features.

What CareHaven is not

CareHaven is a tool for you, the caregiver. It is not run by the person you care for, and it is not a clinical record-keeping system for professionals. It does not replace your care team — its only sanctioned "exit" is reaching a real person when you need one: a clinician, a benefits caseworker, or an emergency line. Everything else — the tracking, the prep, the gentle reminders, the words for the hard moment — happens right here, on your device.

Where to go next

• New here? Start with What is CareHaven?
• Curious how it adapts and thinks? See How CareHaven thinks and Support tailored to a diagnosis
• Ready to set up a person? See Setting up for the first time
• Want to look around first? Try Exploring with demo data