The Care Hack is a New York digital health company that builds tools for family caregivers of people living with serious mental illness, dementia, stroke, or brain injury. A longtime family caregiver and a community psychiatrist started the company to pair expert coaching, personalized education, care planning, and a peer community for the family caregivers it calls cognitive caregivers. Rather than selling directly to families, the company delivers its service through partnerships with health systems, insurance companies, and large provider practices.
A collaboration with McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, extends the company's family-caregiver program to families navigating mental health conditions and dementia, and the same focus has drawn coverage on NPR and in StartUp Health. The company frames its goal as making family caregiving a core pillar of healthcare.