OurNext: helping families share the care of an ageing parent.

OurNext is for adults coordinating care for an ageing parent who still lives at home in England. One shared care space holds the appointments, letters, provider contacts and tasks, so the family can see what is coming and who has agreed to do it.

The parent can take part if they want to, and the rest of the family joins by invitation.

Letters, appointments and messages land in different places, and one person ends up re-entering them, chasing everyone else and remembering who said they would do what.

Reviews of existing caregiver apps kept pointing to the same needs: share only what each person should see, link a notification straight to the thing that needs doing, and stay useful to someone doing it alone. It also has to know its limits: no diagnosis, no treatment advice, no symptom triage.

Tasks are requested, accepted, declined, handed back and completed, with the history kept, so everyone knows who agreed. Appointments carry the provider, the letter, the questions to ask and the transport. Each helper gets only the access they need, and the owner can preview exactly what a helper will see before inviting them.

Underneath is a Flutter app on Supabase, with a TypeScript API and a PostgreSQL schema built around owner, editor, viewer and helper roles, single-use invitations that expire, and an audit history of every change.

The foundations are in: accounts, care spaces, shared tasks, appointments, helper access and an in-app notification inbox, covered by 22 automated test cases for isolation, expiry, revocation and two people editing at once.

For now it runs on synthetic data only. Real health information waits until sign-in and hosting meet the standard it deserves.

• 4

  access roles: owner, editor, viewer, helper

• 22

  automated test cases