With Circle of Support on Alexa together, aging people can have up to 10 caregivers. The primary caregiver, as well as the person receiving support, can add or remove new “circle members” via the Alexa app. They can be trusted relatives such as siblings and cousins or friends, close neighbors, or the spouse of the primary caregiver. They can be anyone who can stop by to visit the person when needed. This feature makes things easier if the primary caregiver lives far away from the person needing care and assistance. All circle members will receive daily alerts, notifications, and check-ins through the activity feed. As such, elderly people will always have someone to assist them. Circle of Support is now available to all Alexa Together users. Remote Assist, on the other hand, is “coming soon”, and it’s an opt-in feature. The person receiving care will have to choose whether they want to enable Remote Assist for their primary caregiver. If enabled, the caregiver will be able to remotely set up Alexa Routines for the person. Routines automate various Alexa actions that a person repeats at a set time every day. For instance, if the person turns off their alarm in the morning and follows it up with turning on the bedroom light, asking about the weather, and then asking Alexa to play the news, Routines will kick off all these actions at once. They don’t need to separately ask Alexa for every action.
