Awake Minder — Stay Alert. Every Shift.

Give families proof that someone was awake, watching, all night.

Awake Minder sends active check-in alerts to overnight caregivers every 10, 15, or 30 minutes, escalates missed responses instantly, and logs every check-in for liability and compliance records — built for agencies, and available directly to families who hire caregivers privately.

TONIGHT — 11:00 PM TO 7:00 AM 3 caregivers on shift

Maria R.

Client: Dorothy K.

Checked in 4 min ago

Active

James T.

Client: Robert M.

Checked in 11 min ago

Active

Angela P.

Client: Eleanor S.

No response — 2nd alert sent

Escalating

Our mother was 85 years old and a few months into recovery from a stroke. Her care agency had three caregivers assigned to watch her overnight. One night, all three fell asleep.

When she needed help getting to the bathroom, no one was awake to help her. She tried to get there on her own — and fell, breaking her ankle. The agency ended up covering the cost of her surgery.

That night made one thing painfully clear: "someone is watching" isn't good enough if there's no way to know whether they're actually awake. Awake Minder exists so no other family has to learn that the hard way.

— The Awake Minder Team

This isn't a rare risk. It's a documented one.

What happened to our family isn't an outlier — it's a well-studied pattern in overnight care. Here's what the research and the insurance industry already know.

32–36%

of night-shift nurses report falling asleep on shift at least once a week — and home caregivers face the same overnight fatigue with far less oversight.

Oncology Nursing Society

+34%

higher injury risk during night shifts compared to day shifts, according to a meta-analysis of shift-work injury data.

AMN Healthcare

42%

of adults over 75 fall at least once a year — and falls are consistently found to cluster around unsupervised, overnight hours.

National Library of Medicine

$500K+

is the average settlement in care-negligence lawsuits, climbing to $1–3 million in cases involving serious injury — a cost agencies, and families, bear directly.

Care Negligence Settlement Data

A Real Case

$14 million jury verdict — Philadelphia, Bayada Home Health Care

A 74-year-old Alzheimer's patient under one-on-one overnight supervision from a home health aide fell out of bed and fractured her pelvis. Video evidence showed the aide failed to respond or check on her. She declined over the following month and died. A jury found the aide's failure to supervise and respond negligent, awarding the family $14 million, including $10 million for wrongful death.

Case Summary — Sokolove Law NY Justice Center — Caregiver Fatigue Toolkit

Built to prove alertness, not just hope for it.

Active Response Alarms

Caregivers confirm they're awake and alert with a tap or quick task — not just a snooze button. Missed responses escalate automatically.

Agency Dashboard

A live grid of every caregiver's last check-in across all your clients' homes. Two missed responses trigger an immediate alert to your on-call staff.

Fatigue & Wellness Layer

Optional guided stretches, bright-light prompts, and sleep-debt tracking that help caregivers stay sharp through long overnight shifts.

Liability & Compliance Logging

Every check-in is timestamped and exportable — documented proof of overnight supervision for families, insurers, and state care audits.

Randomized Timing

Intervals shift slightly each cycle so alerts never become predictable enough to sleep through.

Family Peace of Mind

Whether you're an agency or a family managing a private caregiver directly, get a clear summary showing your loved one's caregiver was actively alert and checking in throughout the night.

Four steps, running quietly all shift long.

Set the interval

Choose 10, 15, or 30-minute check-ins per role or shift.

Caregiver checks in

A quick tap or task confirms they're alert and present.

Missed response escalates

Louder alarm first, then an alert to your on-call agency staff.

Everything gets logged

Timestamps roll into a compliance-ready report.

Home care agencies — and the families who hire caregivers directly.

Don't work with an agency? Awake Minder works just as well for families who've hired a private, independently contracted overnight caregiver — you get the same check-in alerts and logs, without needing an agency in between.

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