Elderoak is a caregiver coordination app built for families caring for aging parents. It tracks medications, appointments, and daily check-ins — shared across siblings, spouses, and trusted helpers, so everyone stays on the same page without the group texts. Family Stork starts from a different question: where does your parent's complete health record actually live? Every clinic they've ever visited, every discharge paper, every lab result, every specialist note — that's what a health story is made of, and it can't be rebuilt from a medication schedule. Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use.
Tired of managing health records for yourself and everyone you love? Family Stork organizes them for you automatically.
Elderoak is built for the coordination challenge: you have four siblings, one parent, and a medication schedule that changes every few months. Who gave the evening dose? When is the next cardiology appointment? Did anyone call about the refill? Elderoak puts all of that in one shared view — a dashboard that any family member or trusted helper can see, with medication reminders, dose logging, blood pressure and blood sugar tracking, and a "get help" button that's always visible. That is a real problem, and Elderoak solves it well.
But there is a second problem that Elderoak doesn't address: the complete health record. Your parent's primary care doctor, their cardiologist, their orthopedic surgeon, the two hospitals they've been admitted to in the last five years — each of those providers has a piece of the story. Discharge papers go in a drawer. Lab results arrive in a portal you haven't logged into in months. Visit summaries get lost in the family group text. Elderoak's medication tracker tells you what your parent takes today. It doesn't tell you what the hospital found six months ago, or what the specialist noted at the last visit.
Family Stork is built to close that gap. Your parent gets a private address — the private Family Stork address shown on their record. Give that address to every doctor, every specialist, every hospital. They send visit summaries, lab results, discharge papers, and medication updates to that address. The health story builds itself — no portal logins, no uploads, no phone calls to request records. One timeline. Every provider. Ask your parent's doctor to send the next visit summary there; most are happy to email when you give them a direct address to use.
| Feature | Elderoak | Family Stork |
|---|---|---|
| Primary focus | Care coordination — medications, appointments, check-ins, refill alerts | Complete health record — every clinic visit, lab result, discharge paper, and specialist note |
| How records from clinics arrive | Not handled — you still retrieve records from portals and add medications manually | Clinics email to your parent's private Family Stork address; records file automatically |
| Medication tracking | Core feature — scan prescription labels, dose logging, missed-dose follow-ups, refill alerts | Medication lists arrive with clinic records; AI does data entry from emailed documents |
| Family sharing | Yes — siblings, spouses, helpers each see a role-appropriate view in real time | Yes — family members and helpers see only what you choose to share |
| Helper/aide access | Yes — simplified view with today's plan, visit handoff notes | Yes — helpers see only what the family chooses; helpers never own or manage the record |
| Health vitals logging | Blood pressure, blood sugar, pulse — logged by caregiver or person themselves | Vitals arrive from clinic records; AI pulls them from emailed visit summaries and labs |
| Emergency card | "Get help" button with 911, trusted contacts, quiet family alert | Emergency card from the full health record — always printable, always current |
| Discharge papers & hospital records | Not handled — you collect these separately | Hospital emails discharge summary to the private Family Stork address — it files automatically |
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android — 14 languages | Web-based — any device, any browser; no app download required |
| Pricing | Free for caregiver + person cared for; from $9.99/mo for families | $99/year — or about $10/month; free to organize |
| AI on records | Not listed as a feature | Ask the record questions — when was the last cardiology visit? what did the hospital note on discharge? |
The coordination problem is real: siblings spread across three time zones, a medication list that keeps changing, and nobody sure if Dad took his evening pills. Elderoak is designed for exactly this — real-time coordination, shared visibility, role-appropriate views for whoever shows up at the house that day. If medication coordination is the problem you're trying to solve today, Elderoak addresses it directly.
But caregiving families almost always run into the second problem within weeks: the health record problem. Your parent has a primary care doctor, a cardiologist, a physical therapist, and was admitted to the hospital twice in the past two years. Every one of those providers has records. Those records live in different portals, in different systems, and some of them are still on paper in a folder somewhere. When a new specialist asks for the full history, or when your parent ends up in the emergency room and nobody can remember the medication list from six months ago, the coordination app doesn't have the answer.
Family Stork is built for that second layer. Give every one of your parent's providers the private Family Stork address shown on their record. Ask them to CC that address when they send visit summaries, lab results, or discharge instructions — clinics already know how to send email; nothing new for them to learn. The record grows every time a provider sends. The medication list in the health story is the one the doctor actually prescribed, not the one you typed in yourself.
Hospital discharge is one of the most vulnerable moments in caregiving. Your parent gets home with a stack of papers — discharge summary, new medication instructions, follow-up appointment dates, what symptoms to watch for (ask your parent's doctor about any clinical guidance — we're only talking about record-keeping here). Those papers are important. They usually get tucked into a folder or emailed to one sibling who can't always forward them fast enough.
Elderoak's medication tracker can log the new prescriptions once someone manually adds them. But the discharge summary, the hospital's notes, the radiology results from the stay — these don't automatically appear in any care coordination app. Someone has to retrieve them and enter the relevant details.
Family Stork handles this at the source. Ask the hospital to send the discharge summary to your parent's private Family Stork address. Most hospitals already send discharge paperwork by email; they just need to know which address to use. The document arrives, the health story updates, and the next specialist your parent sees can ask the record — not the family — what happened at the hospital. Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use.
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They solve different problems, so yes — they can complement each other. Elderoak handles real-time coordination: who gave the dose, today's schedule, sibling check-ins. Family Stork holds the complete health record: every provider, every visit, every lab. Many caregiving families need both layers. If you're choosing one to start, the record layer (Family Stork) is harder to rebuild later — clinic records from past visits are harder to recover than medication lists you can re-enter.
Yes — every person gets their own private address and their own timeline. A child from birth, yourself, or a parent you're caring for. Family Stork is explicitly built for the adult child caring for an aging parent: your parents' records are scattered across every doctor they ever had. Bring them together. See the caregivers guide →
Every person's record has a private address — the private Family Stork address shown on the person's record. You give that address to each of your parent's providers: the primary care doctor, the cardiologist, the hospital. When the provider sends a visit summary or lab result, it goes directly to that address and files into the health story automatically. The clinic doesn't need to adopt any new software; they just need an email address to send to.
Elderoak's website states it is free for the caregiver and the person being cared for, with family plans starting at $9.99/month. Family Stork is $99/year — or about $10/month — for the full service across all three TruePrime apps. Both pricing structures are similar; the difference is what each service does with the time and money you spend.
Elderoak is focused on care coordination — today's medications, appointments, and check-ins. It is not designed to capture the complete medical history across all providers. For that layer — every clinic visit, every lab result, every discharge paper from every hospital stay — Family Stork's email mechanic is how the record builds itself without anyone having to retrieve or upload those documents manually.