Everything about your parents in one place: the papers, the doctors, the money, and what she qualifies for. Shared with the people who help, before you need it.
The work arrives all at once, and none of it comes with instructions.
The paper exists. It is in a drawer at her house, and you are ninety minutes away.
Three envelopes from three companies. One is current, and it is in her maiden name.
A premium she never had to pay. A credit nobody renewed. Money that was there all along.
“The most expensive words in caregiving are: I did not know that existed.”
Each piece answers a question a family actually asks, usually at night.
Every paper, where the original lives, and who can open it.
Appointments, rides, refills, and check-ins, each with a name.
Siblings, neighbors, and paid aides, each with the access they need.
What she qualifies for, what it pays, and how to apply.
Insurance, Medicare, wills, taxes, and grief, in plain language.
Who can reach which account, plus the free identity protections.
A filing cabinet is not a plan. chaînge keeps the paper, the place the original lives, and the names of everyone allowed to open it.
The money she is already owed. Eligible older adults leave billions unclaimed every year, not because the programs do not exist, but because nobody explains the order.
Siblings who do not help argue more, because there is no record of who did what. Here, every appointment, ride, and refill has a person attached to it, and everyone can see the list.
Written the way a good attorney would explain it at a kitchen table. Six to eight minutes each, free, permanently.
Estate tools handle death and ignore the five years before it. Caregiving apps stop the day the person dies, which is the exact day the family needs the same information most.
chaînge keeps one record through both. Nothing has to be rebuilt while you are grieving.
Nine questions. chaînge builds the road map and the document list from there.
Each gets the access they need, and you can see what they opened.
Not everything. The next thing. The list reorders itself as life changes.
A product that claims to fit every family fits none. Here is the honest line.
In an emergency right now? Call the free Eldercare Locator at 1-800-677-1116 or visit eldercare.acl.gov. Come back when the dust settles. The library stays free.
One subscription covers one person you are caring for, and everyone in the circle.
Enough to get a family out of the dark.
Everything, for as long as you need it.
$90 a year, two months free
For the family with a house, a business, or two countries.
Her clients are the people this product is for: families in Washington, DC and New Orleans caring for a parent, or settling an estate, who arrive with a shoebox instead of a record.
chaînge began as a family story before it became a product. The name is a working title and is still being cleared.
In transit and at rest.
A permission covers one document. The aide does not see the will.
You can see who viewed what, and revoke it.
Sponsors live in a directory, never beside a document.
chaînge is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. The library explains the law in plain language, and the Advisor tier connects a family with an attorney in their state.
Elder law attorneys, home care agencies, hospital social workers, credit unions and employers meet this family at the exact moment the record matters. We work with them rather than around them.
Flat placement, never per referral. A directory listing is a flat monthly fee. Paying for referrals in health and legal services creates an ethical problem and, in several states, a legal one.
Co-branded, not white-labeled. A firm can hand a client a checklist with both names on it. We do not put our brand over yours.
Never inside the record. No advertising appears on a document, a medication list, or anything a family uploaded in a hard moment.
Starting markets: Washington, DC and New Orleans. Founder-led, which means a real conversation rather than a partner portal.
She does not have to. You run the record, and she gets a printed one-pager with the doctors, the medications, and the emergency numbers.
A drive stores files. It does not know which papers are missing, who is allowed to open what, or when the refill is due.
Documents are encrypted, access is granted one person at a time, and every view is logged. We do not sell data, and you can export or delete everything.
Then the record is a receipt. It shows what has been done and by whom, which ends most arguments about who is carrying the load.
No. chaînge tells you which documents you need, what they do, and when to call an attorney. The Advisor tier connects you with one.
The learning library and the benefits check are free forever, and a local sponsor can cover the record itself. If you are in a crisis today, call the free Eldercare Locator first.
The same record switches to the survivor path: what to do in the first 48 hours, who to notify, and what the estate attorney will ask for.
Twenty minutes to name the family, list the papers, and see the first three things that need doing.