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AI Receptionist for Elder Care + Home Health Agencies

Adult children calling about a parent newly diagnosed with dementia, post-hospital-discharge home-care setup, Medicaid-waiver eligibility, after-hours caregiver no-show coverage — every call answered with patience, captured with the right intake, and routed by urgency. Filipino, Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese caregiver-community languages all natively voiced.

What your callers hear

Thanks for calling Sunrise Home Care. Take your time — tell me what's going on and who I'm helping today. Is this for yourself, a parent, a spouse, or someone else?

Built for the calls elder care + home health agencies actually get

Adult-child callers are stressed — the AI has to be patient

An adult daughter calling because her father was just diagnosed with dementia is overwhelmed, scared, and may be at-work / on lunch break. The AI is system-prompted to slow down, never interrupt, ask one question at a time, and confirm what was heard. It captures: the relationship, the senior's name + age, the diagnosis or trigger event, the urgency (immediate vs planning), the location, insurance, decision-maker(s).

Crisis routing — caregiver no-show at 6am

A family calls in panic because the contracted caregiver didn't show up for a 6am shift with their bedridden mother. This is operationally a crisis. The AI is system-prompted to identify it, page you immediately via SMS (urgent flag), and offer the caller a reassurance hold-message while you scramble. Distinguishes operational crisis from medical crisis (medical = 911 first).

Medicaid waiver + insurance questions

Most US states have Medicaid HCBS (Home + Community-Based Services) waivers with state-specific names (e.g., NY Consumer Directed Personal Assistance, FL Long-Term Care, TX STAR+PLUS, CA IHSS). The AI doesn't pretend to be a benefits counselor — it captures the question, takes a message, and your intake coordinator calls back with the right state-specific guidance.

Caregiver-community languages

Filipino, Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Polish, Russian — caregivers AND clients in elder-care heavily skew toward these communities. The AI handles call intake in all of them with a native-sounding voice. Recruiting calls from caregivers also work in the caller's preferred language.

End-of-life + hospice calls — handled with care, not script

If a family calls and a loved one just died, the AI is system-prompted (safety.ts rule 11c) to drop the booking-flow tone, acknowledge directly + briefly, and take the message without trying to upsell or schedule. The recap email to you is flagged so you call back personally, not from a script.

How it works for elder care + home health agencies

  • Family-decision-maker capture

    Adult children, siblings, spouses, durable-POA holders — the AI captures who has decision authority and gets their callback number. Avoids the call-loop where the agency calls back, talks to a different family member, and re-starts intake.

  • ADL + condition intake

    Activities of Daily Living (bathing, toileting, dressing, transfer, feeding), cognitive status (dementia stage if known), mobility (walker, wheelchair, bed-bound), medication management, fall history, behavioral concerns (wandering, sundowning).

  • Urgent-coverage paging

    Caregiver-no-show + family-emergency-coverage calls page the on-call coordinator immediately. Reassurance hold-message buys you 10 minutes to find a backup.

  • Discharge-coordinator workflow

    Hospital discharge coordinators calling on behalf of a patient get a streamlined intake flow with the discharge date, hospital, attending physician, equipment needs (oxygen, hospital bed, lift), and target home-arrival window. Booking is provisional until the family confirms.

  • HIPAA-aware intake

    If you're a HIPAA-covered home-health agency, sign a BAA with us before processing PHI (email hello@ringdispatch.com — BAA flow is on roadmap, today's signing is email-based). The AI's intake captures only the minimum-necessary PHI for booking; full medical history is taken in your branded admin call, not the AI's intake call.

Your dashboard

Here's what you wake up to.

Latest call · 9 min ago
$389
Maria Hernandez · Emergency leak repair
Tomorrow · 9:00 AM· 412 Oak St· with Carlos
You're booked, Maria — Carlos will be there tomorrow at 9 with parts for a copper pinhole leak.

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    Maria Hernandez
    Emergency leak repair
    $389
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Calls
23
Bookings
8
Booked
$2.7k

From $107/mo (billed annually). No contract. Cancel anytime.

$129/mo if you go month-to-month. Three plans (Starter / Professional / Enterprise), voice cloning included with any active plan, BYO phone number. Most elder care + home health agencies start on Professional for multi-staff routing.

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FAQ for elder care + home health agencies

My mom was just diagnosed with dementia and I don't know where to start. Will the AI just give me a sales pitch?

No. The AI is system-prompted to slow down, ask one question at a time, and capture what the family needs — diagnosis, urgency, location, decision-maker, insurance — without pushing a sale. A human care coordinator calls you back the same day (or within 4 business hours if it's not urgent). The AI's job is to make sure your call doesn't fall through the cracks, not to close you on a contract.

If a caregiver doesn't show up for my mother's shift, can the AI actually get someone there?

The AI can't dispatch a caregiver itself — but it CAN page your on-call coordinator immediately with an urgent flag, capture the situation, and offer your family a reassurance hold-message ('We are paging the on-call coordinator now, you'll hear from a human within 10 minutes'). That's the operational crisis path. For an immediate medical emergency, the AI directs callers to 911 first.

Will the AI know about my state's Medicaid waiver program?

Not in detail — and we'd rather the AI not pretend to be a benefits counselor. It captures the question, the state, the senior's current insurance status, and routes the call back to your intake coordinator who knows the right state-specific guidance (NY CDPAP, FL LTC, TX STAR+PLUS, CA IHSS, etc.).

Does it handle Filipino + Spanish + Mandarin caregiver-community languages?

Yes — 32 languages. In Settings → Voice per language, set the Tagalog/Filipino, Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese voices to native-sounding picks. Both client-family calls and caregiver-recruiting calls work in the caller's language.

Is the AI HIPAA-safe for home-health PHI?

If you're a HIPAA-covered home-health agency, we'll sign a BAA before you go live (email hello@ringdispatch.com — full BAA flow on roadmap, today's signing is email-based). The AI's intake is scoped to minimum-necessary PHI for booking; deep medical history happens in your branded admin call, not the AI's intake step. See /security for full posture.

If a family calls after a death — does the AI handle that gracefully?

Yes. The AI is system-prompted (safety.ts rule 11c) to recognize a recent loss, drop the booking-flow tone, acknowledge the loss directly + briefly, take a message without scheduling or upselling, and flag the call for personal owner callback. Death-care calls are never auto-replied with marketing follow-ups.

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