Not a medical alert pendant.
Nothing to wear, nothing to press, nothing that only works if she remembered to put it on. If you need a pendant too, Pakito sits alongside it.
Our story
Built by one family, for the woman at the center of it.
Pakito didn't start as a product. It started with an 86-year-old mother and grandmother whose memory was beginning to slip — and a family trying, from different cities and different schedules, to take care of her together.
Eight adult children, scattered across cities, trying to coordinate care for one mother. Group texts that scrolled past the things that mattered. Sticky notes only one of them would ever see. A daughter who tracked the medications, a son who remembered the doctors, a grandchild who stopped by Sunday — and no shared place for any of it.
So the family built one. A few of us write the software. The grandchildren pitch in however they can — testing it, sketching ideas, sitting with their grandmother while she tries it. And the rest of the family uses it every single day, which is the only reason it's any good. Every rough edge gets found because someone who loves her ran into it first.
That's still how Pakito is made. Not in a lab, and not for a market we imagined — for a real person we love, and the family doing their best by her. We're sharing it now because we don't think we're the only family who needs it.
What we're for
Help families love their parent better, together.
Pakito is for any aging parent — Mom or Dad — and the family that wants to keep them home as long as it's possible to do it well. These are the beliefs we don't break.
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The family is the user. The parent is the beneficiary. We build for the family, not for a parent we'd ask to learn one more thing. That inversion is the heart of everything.
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The parent has to do nothing. No wearing, no charging, no remembering, no new app. The work moves to the family and the home, where it belongs.
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Awareness, never surveillance. Pakito is not a camera into Mom's life. The family gets word when something's off — not a feed of her every move.
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Meet the parent where her body is. Visual-first, because hearing fades. Built around real impairments, not an idealized healthy parent.
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The home is part of the team. Not a watcher. A contributor — noticing and telling the others, the same way a family member would.
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We stay honest. We won't promise she'll be fine forever. We promise the family will stop feeling lost — and that she can stay home, as herself, for as long as possible.
For the record
What Pakito isn't.
Eldercare is crowded with products that solve the adjacent problem. We are not one of them.
Not a camera in her home.
Cameras feel like surveillance and rob a parent of dignity. Pakito gives the family awareness without watching her.
Not a robot companion.
Pakito doesn't pretend to be your parent's friend. It carries the family's love between them — it doesn't replace it.
Not one more app for Mom to learn.
The family is the input. Your parent simply sees what matters to her, on her schedule, on her screen.
Get in touch
If your family is walking this road too, we'd love to hear from you.
Tell us about your parent and your family. We'll help you figure out whether Pakito is right for you — and if it is, we'll help you get set up.