The same question, many times a day
The most tiring part of care is often the smallest: the same practical question, asked again and again, each one still needing a calm, familiar answer even when patience is running thin.
A familiar companion for the moments care cannot be everywhere.
Kaki runs on a screen the family already has at home. An older adult simply talks to it and sees a familiar face and hears a familiar voice — a caregiver’s consented likeness — answering the everyday questions that repeat through the day, grounded in details the caregiver controls.
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The small questions can carry the heaviest load.
Dementia care is rarely defined only by the big medical decisions. It is also shaped by the repeated, everyday moments: “What day is it?”, “When is lunch?” and “Can you pick up bread?”
Each question deserves a patient, familiar answer. Yet no caregiver can be fully available for every conversation, every minute of the day. Kaki began with a simple design question: how might we make those moments feel supported without trying to replace the person who cares?
It’s 2 p.m. Ah Ma’s daughter is at work and won’t be home for hours. For the fourth time since lunch, Ah Ma isn’t sure whether she has eaten, or what day it is. There’s no one in the room to ask — so the questions go unanswered, and the afternoon feels a little more uncertain.
Hours alone, every single day
A caregiver can be at work, cooking or asleep and still be the only person who can answer. That leaves long stretches where a loved one is alone with their questions and no one to ask.
The early signs are easy to miss
A question that changes — asked more often, or about something new — can be an early signal. With no one tracking it day to day, that signal is easily lost until it becomes a crisis.
The scale makes everyday support urgent.
21%+
of Singapore citizens are aged 65+
Singapore is now a super-aged society.
8.8%
of residents aged 60+ live with dementia
That is roughly 1 in 11 older adults.
51.5%
of dementia cases remain undetected
Families can be navigating change before formal support catches up.
S$44.5k
mean annual informal-care cost
A 2017 Singapore study benchmarked the value of family caregiving.
Sources: National Population and Talent Division (2026), WiSE 2023 study, NUHS (2025) and Woo et al. (2017).
Care should feel like a familiar conversation.
Kaki turns the screen already in the home into a gentle two-way companion. The older adult just talks to it; behind the scenes, a caregiver shapes every answer from a companion app — so responses carry the familiar rhythms, words and reassurance that matter in one household. You can see it in conversation in the demo above.
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The older adult just talks
No buttons and no app to learn. The older adult speaks to Kaki naturally, and a familiar face and voice answer on the home screen — the way a family member would.
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The caregiver shapes every answer
From a simple companion app, the caregiver keeps Kaki current: daily schedule, meal times, centre visits, medication and the household details that make an answer sound like family, not a chatbot.
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Care keeps moving between visits
Everyday requests (“we’re low on bread”) become a caregiver-ready list, while gentle check-ins quietly log orientation and mood — building a clearer picture of the hours the caregiver can’t be there.
Designed with trust at the centre
Support the relationship. Never imitate it without boundaries.
- A caregiver likeness is used with explicit consent.
- The family knows when they are speaking with AI.
- The caregiver controls the knowledge that shapes each response.
- Patterns can inform follow-up, but never replace clinical judgement.
The impact
Less repetition. More room for care.
Kaki softens the repetitive layer around care so families can spend more of their time on presence, patience and connection. Here is where that shows up — across clinical engagement, everyday hours and the real cost of informal care.
Clinical outcome
1.5–3hper day
of active cognitive engagement (≈45–90h a month)
Familiar two-way check-ins that exercise orientation, recall, attention and language — replacing passive screen time and idle alone-time.
Caregiver time saved
7–14hper week
of repeated-question time reclaimed
Kaki fields the everyday repeats — “what day is it?”, “have I eaten?” — so caregivers stop answering the same question dozens of times a day.
Cost savings
$2,200per year
in informal-care cost offset
Even a 5% dent in the informal-care burden — about $3,700 a month — adds up to over $2,000 a year.
Important: Kaki is designed to support caregivers and clinical follow-up. It does not diagnose, provide medical advice or replace emergency support.
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