About this chapter

Same people, new idea

HalleyAssist started because our founder, André, couldn't find a way to help his mother stay safely in her own home as her Alzheimer's progressed — so he built one. The same team, and the same belief that people deserve to stay independent and connected as they age without feeling watched or like a burden, is still here. What we're building has changed.

What's changing

The home-monitoring hardware platform we spent years developing — described in our history — is no longer something we're actively building. It did what we set out to do, and we're proud of the trials, the research and the recognition it earned. We've moved on to a different way of solving the same problem.

What we're building instead

Something simpler than sensors and hardware: a warm, natural phone conversation. Regular, friendly automated calls to check in on someone — how they're doing, how they're feeling, whether anything's changed — paired with a straightforward way for family and carers to see how those check-ins are going, without installing anything in mum or dad's house.

There's something in a conversation that passive observation doesn't replicate. Families want to know their person was actually asked how they're doing, not just monitored.