Creating an overview
Bringing together relevant information, tasks and arrangements in one place.
About us
Developed from personal experience.
The Homecare Assistant wasn’t conceived on the drawing board, but grew out of my own experience as a family carer. It’s designed to reduce stress, save time and help you keep on top of day-to-day care.
The origins
Two experiences that gave rise to an idea.
For almost a year, I cared for my seriously ill mother at home round the clock. This period was extremely physically and emotionally draining. In the final months, I was left with an almost constant feeling of exhaustion and being overwhelmed.
I simply lacked the energy to search for any digital support that might be available. You just carry on – somehow.
Many years later, I was helping my father manage his various health conditions. Following an acute spike in his blood sugar levels in the spring of 2025, so many questions suddenly arose that, alongside the usual internet searches, I turned to AI for the first time. This led to the decision to develop the Homecare Assistant.
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2010 · The crash course
319 days of caring for my mother
For almost a year, care meant round-the-clock responsibility – and the realisation of just how quickly one’s strength and sense of perspective can fade.
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The Long Haul
Supporting my father
Numerous illnesses, several doctors and a host of medications highlight just how complex home care becomes over the years.
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Spring 2025 · The decision
Many questions led to the creation of HCA
An acute spike in blood sugar levels and initial promising experiments with AI provided the impetus to harness modern technology specifically for home care.
Less pressure in day-to-day care
The responsibility is always at the back of your mind.
Anyone who looks after a relative is familiar with the constantly recurring questions. This mental burden can be gruelling.
If something goes wrong due to a lack of an overview, the feeling of having failed quickly sets in. Yet many such situations can be avoided – if information, tasks and arrangements are reliably brought together.
„Have I thought of everything?“
„Will the medication last through the weekend?“
„What else did the doctor say?“
„Did we give the eye drops today?“
Technology with a clear purpose
This is where technology really makes sense.
For me, home care is one of the most complex social challenges we face. Yet it often takes place behind the scenes and does not receive the attention it deserves given its importance.
I’m convinced that digitalisation and artificial intelligence can make a real difference. That’s why HCA is being developed with AI at its core: using modern technology designed to help make the vast amount of information and tasks involved in day-to-day care more manageable.
Save time
Simplify routine organisational tasks and make information available more quickly.
Reduce stress
Alleviate the constant feeling of having forgotten something through reliable systems.
Our commitment
Reliability is our top priority.
In the care process, you need to be able to rely on the aids you use. As the full-time press officer for a hospital in Hamburg, I am also familiar with the healthcare sector through my day-to-day work. Crucially, my perspective as a family member remains key: I know what it feels like to bear constant responsibility whilst ensuring you don’t lose sight of the bigger picture.
Reliability
Technical reliability is the most important objective in the development of HCA.
Relief
Every function should have a specific benefit, save time and take the strain off people in their day-to-day caregiving.
Supportive
HCA is a tool. It does not replace family members, doctors, nursing staff or other stakeholders.
Our journey
Milestones
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Start of development
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Foundation of HCA Homecare IT-Solutions GmbH
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Signing of a cooperation agreement with Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Hamburg, a non-profit limited company
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Relaunch of the website www.homecare-assistant.eu
HCA is designed to grow through experience
What would help you in your day-to-day caregiving?
Care is personal. That’s why a good solution cannot be devised solely from behind a desk. I’d welcome feedback on the Homecare Assistant – particularly regarding situations, tasks and pressures where additional support would be helpful.
Not every suggestion will be possible to implement. But every experience helps us to better understand day-to-day caregiving and to make HCA more useful, step by step.