Your home, your terms. A camera-free safety kit for older adults who live alone: radar sensors watch for a fall or a long time without moving, there's nothing to wear, and alerts go only to the people they choose. Prototype now, pilot homes next.
When an older adult living alone falls, hours on the floor do the harm. Radar covers every room, kitchen included, watching for a fall or no movement for too long. No cameras. Nothing to wear. She picks who gets which alerts. They get it by phone, and call 911 if it's needed. We install it, and keep it running. Today, a prototype runs in a D.C.-area home. Next, a six-home D.C. and Maryland pilot, tuning false alarms before paid installs.
These tiers are our plan, not something you can buy today. The starter kit we're testing covers radar watching for a fall or no movement, door sensors, and alerts to the people the older adult picks. Everything marked planned isn't built yet. We'll install each kit and set prices from what the pilot installs actually cost.
Safety tech for older adults usually assumes a button they'll wear, a camera they'll allow, and a next-of-kin on the line. For a lot of people, every one of those assumptions fails.
No wearable to charge, no button to remember. The idea is that the home does the watching, quietly, and only speaks up when something matters.
Discreet radar and door sensors notice movement, stillness, and doors opening. No cameras.
The sensors watch for a fall, a long stretch with no movement, or a door left open. Testing fall detection in a real home is our next step.
The hub alerts the people the older adult picked, in the order they set. Nothing goes to a call center unless they choose one. The hub never calls 911 or the police itself: alerts go to the people the older adult picked, one of them calls 911 if it's needed, and the older adult can choose to stop at their people instead. It adds a safety net. It doesn't replace 911.
A 2025 randomized trial in Canada found that adding passive home monitoring did not significantly reduce moves to higher levels of care after one year (Donelle et al., JMIR Aging 2025). WanderCare is designed around that finding: the point isn't watching, it's making sure a real person the older adult chose gets the alert. Founded by Michael Eisinger, who spent three years at the Jewish Federations of North America as one of three staff who stood up its national center for Holocaust survivor care, and was lead author of its 2018 paper on training providers in person-centered, trauma-informed care.
About 1 in 4 older adults falls each year, yet only about 9 percent of Americans 65 and older own a medical alert device (The Senior List, 2026 survey). WanderCare needs nothing to wear and no camera.
More likely to live alone: 25 percent of LGBT adults 65 and older, compared with 15 percent of straight and cisgender peers (Williams Institute, 2023). Alerts go to the people they actually rely on.
Peace of mind without taking a parent's independence. The parent still makes the choices: we'll do the walkthrough with them, and they decide what's watched and who's told.
WanderCare is a prototype. It's pre-revenue, with no customers and no installs in anyone else's home yet. We won't invent testimonials or pilot numbers. Here's the real state of the work.
The ambient screen that shows a check-in or a reminder, glance-friendly, never a phone.
The alerting layer that carries an event to the people the older adult chose.
The nonprofit community mesh (wanderingwithpride.org), still in design, meant to keep homes connected when the internet drops.
Every product in the ecosystem. Local-first, no surveillance, right-to-repair.