Interdependent Care Planning, explained
Care planning is a conversation, not a form. Here's how a whole family plans, funds, and learns to advocate together — in one app.
A Whole Family MatterAdvance care planning has traditionally been done on paper: one person fills in a form, signs it, and files it away. For collectivist families — where the family, not only the patient, decides — that model leaves almost everyone out.
Interdependent Care Planning (ICP) is our answer. It brings your immediate family, your family back home, and your local or chosen family into one place to plan, fund, and advocate for dignified end-of-life care — together.
It starts with a question
ICP is a conversation, not a form, and it starts with a question. Based on the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act (UHCDA) 2023 and collaboration with subject matter experts, we crafted questions that lead to love — so a whole family can deliver dignified end-of-life experiences together.
Every question moves through three checkpoints:
- Your position — where you stand today. Asking a question such as "How do you really feel about death and dying?" begins here.
- Your challenges — the same follow-up comes with every question: "What concerns, issues, and challenges might you be facing?"
- Your mind-changer — "What would make you change your mind?" — the question that keeps the conversation honest.
At every checkpoint, family members choose from options supported by medical and legal, relational and social education on systemic end-of-life suffering — generated with AI and grounded in the lived experiences of medical migrants and their collectivist families. Then each person can explain their reasoning by video, audio, or text, for collective discussion and team affirmation.
Funding care together
Pooling money is something our cultures already know — paluwagan in the Philippines, esusu in Nigeria. Instead of reactionary cash remittances during a family emergency, care teams proactively pool for each other's end-of-life care through five purpose-based pools: urgent, quality of life, legacy and rites, repatriation, and mutual aid.
Learning to speak for each other
Patient advocacy learning formalises palliative care workbooks into seven stages of a care team's journey, based on the 7 keys framework we learnt directly from the authors of Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest — Dr. Sammy Winemaker and Dr. Hsien Seow.
Start with your family
The first nine questions are free. Bring your three circles of care together, and answer your first question as a family.
Start your family’s care plan
The first nine questions are free. Bring your three circles of care together.