Why We Built Beaver Health to Support Family Caregivers

Every day, millions of people across the U.S. are providing care for aging parents, grandparents, or loved ones at home. They're managing medications, coordinating doctor visits, navigating difficult diagnoses, and advocating in hospital systems that are often cold and confusing. All of this happens while caregivers juggle jobs, kids, and their own health.

The emotional toll is heavy. The guidance is often nonexistent.

At Beaver Health, we built our platform because we've lived this. Every member of our founding team has been a caregiver. We’ve sat in emergency rooms asking the same questions over and over. We’ve waited months for specialist appointments only to leave with a PDF. We’ve fought back against dismissals and outdated assumptions about aging. And we’ve felt the helplessness that comes when someone we love is in pain and the system offers no clear answers.

We started Beaver because no family should have to go through this alone.

What Caregiving Looks Like Today

Caregivers are stepping in to do the daily, invisible work of keeping older adults safe and supported. But most are unpaid, untrained, and navigating conditions like dementia, post-stroke recovery, and chronic illness without expert backup.

The system isn’t designed to help them. It’s confusing, fragmented, and slow. Waitlists stretch for months. Clinician time is short. Families are often left on their own to manage decisions with lifelong impact.

One of our team members cared for her grandmother through a memory decline that was dismissed for years. When her grandmother was finally referred to a neurologist, the waitlist was over a year. After all that time, they were given handouts and told to come back the next year. During a hospitalization, her grandmother’s symptoms were misunderstood, and she was denied hydration and nutrition. When the family pushed back, they were told, “She’s already lived a good life.”

That kind of thinking is dangerous. And it’s more common than most people realize.

A Platform Built by and for Caregivers

Beaver Health exists to change how families experience caregiving. We provide:

• 24/7 vetted guidance for caregiver questions
• Engaging, personalized cognitive activities for older loved ones

Everything we build is designed to be practical, clear, and supportive. Because caregivers are already doing enough.

A Shared Crisis, A Shared Commitment

This isn’t just one family’s story. It’s everywhere. And it’s growing.

By 2030, one in five Americans will be over 65. The majority will rely on family caregivers. Yet the support structures those families need still don’t exist at scale. That’s why we created Beaver Health: to provide accessible, expert-backed support to families who can’t wait.

We believe that caregiving is essential work. It deserves tools, structure, and respect. And older adults deserve care that honors their lives, languages, and needs.

We're in This With You

We remember the sleepless nights, the medical conversations that made no sense, the frustration of seeing a loved one struggle without help. But we also remember the pride, the power of showing up for someone you love.

Beaver Health is here to make that path more supported. For caregivers. For older adults. For all of us.

Because at some point, we’ll all be caregivers or need care ourselves. No one should have to face it alone.

Explore how Beaver Health supports families today at www.beaverhealth.org/early-access