Living independently
For a Senior who lives alone or with a spouse, build a light daily rhythm, nearby response map, emergency information, and respectful check-ins without defaulting to surveillance.
Ruxum Families
Build the right support system around the person your family loves.
No two Seniors, conditions, homes, or families are the same. Ruxum’s vision is to help each household shape a care network around the Senior’s real situation—then turn that plan into clear ownership, useful context, and dependable follow-through.
Ruxum Families vision
Care coordination should adapt to the family and the Senior—not force every household into one template.
Different health, living, and family situations create different coordination needs. Ruxum’s direction is to turn each situation into a clear, consent-aware support plan while keeping the family in control.
Available today and where we are going: the current app supports roles, routines, medicines, appointments, a Health Packet, urgent help, and optional consent-aware signals. Over time, Ruxum is intended to offer deeper situation-specific guidance, adaptive recommendations, and approved partner handoffs. These tools support coordination; they do not provide clinical care.
Dementia or memory changes
Coordinate familiar routines, known contacts, consent choices, bounded home/away awareness, and an agreed response plan. Ruxum does not diagnose dementia or replace specialist care.
Post-hospital recovery
Translate discharge instructions into owned family tasks: medicines, follow-up visits, transport, reports, questions, home support, and the next review.
Medicine-intensive care
Keep the clinician-confirmed list, reminders, reported outcomes, refill ownership, and questions for a doctor or pharmacist aligned across the care network.
Mobility or fall-risk support
Coordinate visits, physiotherapy or mobility support, home adjustments, optional activity context, and the people who should act when the normal pattern changes.
Family and helpers across locations
Give distant relatives, nearby Rukshaks, responders, and designated professionals bounded roles so each person knows what they own and what to do next.
What a family can do in Ruxum today
Build the care network
Add the Senior, family members, primary and backup Rukshaks, responders, a treating physician contact, and a preferred chemist.
Set routines and ownership
Create repeating care tasks and check-ins with a time, owner, status, and visible follow-through.
Review Care today
See due tasks, medicine state, open exceptions, Health Connect context, and who owns the next step in one daily summary.
Keep medicines moving
Add medicines with assisted intake, remind the Senior, record a taken outcome, watch optional stock, and initiate a refill handoff.
Prepare health context
Build a Health Packet for medicines, allergies, conditions, doctor, hospital, insurance, identity-document notes, and recent reports.
Coordinate help and services
Track urgent incidents plus everyday doctor, diagnostic, pharmacy, transport, home-care, and follow-up requests.
Daily family confidence
See what needs attention without reading every event.
Care today turns tasks, exceptions, medicine outcomes, bounded health context, and ownership into one useful daily answer. A care streak and non-cash Care Points encourage the family to check in before a crisis.
- What is due now and later today
- What is waiting, missed, or in exception
- Who owns each care item
- Role-aware home-screen widgets for a faster glance
Current Ruxum app using fictional demonstration data.
Medication continuity
From adding a medicine to getting the next refill.
Ruxum supports the practical medication steps that tend to fragment across paper prescriptions, alarms, family chat, and chemist calls.
Assisted intake with a human check
The Family Admin can begin with a prescription, package, photo, pasted text, or manual entry. OCR suggestions are clearly labeled and must be confirmed before saving.
Low stock becomes an action
Optional stock tracking can flag refill risk. A saved preferred chemist gives the family a direct WhatsApp handoff without pretending Ruxum is a pharmacy.
Medication information and OCR suggestions are organizational aids, not medical advice or proof that a dose was taken.
Continuity around care
Be better prepared for appointments and hospital admission.
Health Packet and emergency summary
Gather family-supplied health context and create a dated summary for an agreed hospital or responder handoff. The 12-hour expiry label does not erase shared copies, and identity-pattern masking is limited to identity-document notes. Review the whole summary before sharing.
Appointment and service follow-through
Record provider details, scheduled time, health-packet sharing intent, status, outcome, report or prescription notes, next appointment, and a follow-up prompt.
Ruxum coordinates the handoff; it does not currently book or fulfill provider services through third-party APIs.
The people around the Senior
Each role sees the work it needs to do.
Family Admin
Sets up the network, routines, medicines, permissions, care contacts, and response path—and sees the full family picture.
Senior
Gets a calmer home screen for medicines, the next check-in, the designated helper, urgent help, phone setup, and emergency calling.
Rukshak and responder
Rukshaks see assigned visits and confirmation actions. Responders see incidents they can claim, an ETA and arrival path, and the timeline needed to close the loop.
Not every helper needs a full account on day one. Families can also use invite codes, SMS and WhatsApp share flows, or secure Rukshak links for bounded participation.
Optional evidence, not automatic proof
Reduce uncertainty without claiming certainty.
Families can choose which phone capabilities contribute to care. The app surfaces readiness and consent instead of hiding these controls.
- Health Connect summaries when compatible data and permission are available
- Phone-activity freshness as a bounded context signal
- Optional home and away awareness—not continuous live tracking
- Paired-phone Bluetooth presence during a visible 30-minute session
- Alert readiness, monitoring setup, quiet hours, and notification controls
Paired-phone presence
A Family or Senior phone can start a visible 30-minute session. If a paired Rukshak phone detects it during Arrived or Done, Ruxum records “helper phone likely nearby.” The signal never marks the task complete by itself.
Language and setup
Start with the household, not a generic checklist.
A first-run language choice appears before role setup. Families can then use a guided starter plan and return to Settings for invites, people, medicines, Health Packet, appointments, permissions, quiet hours, and language.
- English
- Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada
- Bengali, Gujarati, and Malayalam
Nine app-language choices
The chosen language can be changed later from Settings.
Common questions
Questions families ask before trying Ruxum
What does Ruxum help a family coordinate?
Senior-care routines, medicines, helpers, appointments and services, health context, exceptions, and urgent response in one shared care network.
Can Ruxum help with medicines and refills?
Yes. A Family Admin can add medicines through assisted or manual intake, track optional stock and low-stock thresholds, and initiate a refill handoff to a preferred chemist. The Senior can see medicine reminders and record a simple taken outcome.
Does it require special hardware?
No special hardware is required for the core care-coordination experience. Optional features can use Android phone capabilities, compatible Health Connect data, consented location, and paired-phone Bluetooth presence.
The current Android app is separate from the Legacy Ruxum Pendant. Historical pendant features, including its SOS button and fall-detection claims, do not establish current app capabilities or device compatibility. Read the Legacy Ruxum Pendant history for the original product and its limitations.
Does Ruxum continuously track location?
No. Location support is optional, permission-based, and bounded around home and away awareness. Ruxum should not be treated as a continuous live-tracking service.
Does Ruxum replace emergency services or medical advice?
No. Ruxum coordinates the family care network and preserves response context. It does not replace emergency services, a clinician, diagnosis, or medical advice.
Free tools for your family
Start the conversation. Put the next steps on paper.
Use these resources together, whether you are ready for an app or simply need a shared plan.
Bring the details together
A printable packet for contacts, permissions, appointments and responsibilities.
Get the family coordination packetAgree on respectful check-ins
A conversation guide for staying involved from another city.
Plan support with consentGet the practical arrangements ready
A short checklist for records, transport, questions and follow-through.
Use the readiness checklistBrowse all free family resources, including coordination after a hospital stay.
Start with one household and one week of real care.
Download Ruxum or ask us for help setting it up.
A useful first week starts with the Senior, one Family Admin, one trusted Rukshak, and a few routines that genuinely matter.