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Caregiver access

Let one person you trust see whether you ate, drank, took your medicines and moved. You choose which of those four, you hand over the code yourself, and you can end it in one click.

How it works

What a carer can see

• Meals logged and their calories — shared only if meals was ticked, for the last 7 days, as a daily summary rather than a running feed.
• Water drunk — shared only if water was ticked, for the last 7 days, as a daily summary rather than a running feed.
• Medicine doses taken, as counts only — shared only if doses was ticked, for the last 7 days, as a daily summary rather than a running feed.
• Steps walked — shared only if steps was ticked, for the last 7 days, as a daily summary rather than a running feed.

What a carer can never see

• Weight and body measurements. Not offered as a scope, so there is no setting that shares them.
• Mood, notes and anything written in a text field. The diary snapshot this page is built on has never included them.
• Which medicines, at what dose, on what schedule. The medicine scope is a count of doses due and doses taken. That is the question a carer actually has.
• Sleep, heart rate and blood pressure. Not in the catalogue.
• Photographs and location. Never shared by any part of TempoLife.
• Anything at all after revocation, including anything from before it. There is no archive on the carer's side; the view is rebuilt from the database on every load.

Caregiver access is not a monitoring service and not a medical device. It does not alert anyone, does not detect falls or emergencies, and nobody at TempoLife is watching. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.

Doing this well for an older relative

The technology is the easy half. The part that decides whether this helps or corrodes a relationship is how it is set up and how it is used afterwards.

Set it up together, on their device, with them driving. Sit next to them rather than taking the phone. They create the invite, they choose the scopes, they read the list out loud. If the only person who understands the setup is the carer, then it is surveillance with extra steps, and the day it needs changing they will not be able to change it. Ask which of the four things they are comfortable sharing and accept the answer, including when it is one of them. A person who shares only their water intake and keeps everything else is exercising exactly the control this page exists to give them.

Agree what it is for, in one sentence. "So I stop phoning you every evening to ask if you ate" is a good reason. "So I can check up on you" is not, and people hear the difference immediately. Write the sentence down somewhere you will both see it in six months.

Check weekly, not hourly. A daily summary is designed for a weekly glance. Watching it several times a day turns a reassurance tool into an anxiety machine, and the first thing an anxious carer does with a gap in the data is phone about it — which teaches the other person that logging honestly gets them a phone call. Pick a day. Look then.

Know what a real change looks like. One quiet day means nothing: people forget to log, phones run flat, batteries die, a good day out produces no entries at all. What is worth a conversation is a pattern — several days in a row with far fewer meals than usual, a medicine count that has been consistently short for a week, water at a fraction of the usual level in hot weather, or steps that drop to nearly nothing and stay there. Those are worth asking about gently. And the question is "how are you doing", never "I saw you skipped Tuesday".

When a change matters medically, it is a clinician's job, not this page's. A sudden and sustained drop in eating or drinking, confusion about whether medicines were taken, a fall, or any new symptom means a call to their GP or the relevant out-of-hours service. Missed doses in particular are worth a pharmacist's five minutes: they are often solvable with a blister pack or a simpler schedule rather than more reminding. Nothing on this page is monitoring, nobody is alerted, and an empty day is not an alarm.

Revisit it. Every few months, ask whether they still want it on, and mean the question. Consent that was never revisited is not really consent, and the offer to switch it off is what keeps the offer to leave it on genuine.

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Share my own diaryI have a code

Carers who already accepted a code go to the caregiver view. Coaches and dietitians want the professional portal instead, which works the same way and shares a different set of things.

Frequently asked questions

Source: Diary data read through the app's own read-only snapshot helper; medicine sharing is counts only · checked 2026-09-02