Our Story
CareGuardAI was founded by healthcare professionals and family caregivers who experienced firsthand the impossible choice between personal needs and patient safety.
"To give every family caregiver the freedom to breathe — knowing their loved one is safe, engaged, and cared for."
CareGuardAI exists to solve one of the most overlooked crises in American healthcare: caregiver burnout. We provide a medically supervised, AI-enhanced telehealth platform that allows family caregivers of Alzheimer's, Dementia, and terminally ill patients to safely step away for essential personal time.
Our platform is not a replacement for human care — it is a bridge. A bridge that connects vulnerable patients with trained, compassionate staff and advanced AI monitoring, so that the people who love them most can rest, recharge, and return as better caregivers.
We envision a healthcare system where respite care is not a luxury — it is a standard benefit. Through our Medicare grant application, we are working to make CareGuardAI available to every Medicare beneficiary who serves as a family caregiver, regardless of their financial situation or geographic location.
By 2030, we aim to serve over one million family caregivers annually, reducing caregiver burnout rates by 40%, decreasing unnecessary emergency hospitalizations, and extending the time patients can remain safely in their homes — saving Medicare billions in institutional care costs.
What We Stand For
Every feature, every interaction, every protocol is designed with deep empathy for both patients and their caregivers. We understand the weight of caregiving because we've lived it.
We hold ourselves to the highest medical standards. Every session is supervised by licensed RNs and MDs, and our AI is trained on clinical best practices for memory care.
We believe every family caregiver deserves respite, regardless of income or geography. Our Medicare grant application is central to making CareGuardAI universally accessible.
Our AI augments human care — it never replaces it. Every algorithm decision is explainable, every alert is reviewed by a human clinician before action is taken.
Leadership
Chief Medical Officer
Board-certified geriatrician with 20 years of experience in Alzheimer's and Dementia care. Former Director of Memory Care at Johns Hopkins.
Director of Clinical Operations
Registered Nurse with 15 years in palliative and memory care. Designed the clinical supervision protocols that underpin every CareGuardAI session.
Chief AI Officer
AI researcher specializing in healthcare applications. Former lead researcher at NIH's National Institute on Aging. Expert in behavioral pattern recognition.
Director of Caregiver Experience
Former family caregiver for her mother with Alzheimer's. Advocates for caregiver rights and designed our user experience from lived experience.