Why does my mom with dementia keep calling me all day?

Repetitive calling is caused by separation anxiety, a well-documented symptom of dementia. Your mom isn't calling to be difficult. Something triggers a moment of fear or loneliness, and the only relief her brain knows is to hear your voice. Because dementia impairs short-term memory, she forgets she called five minutes ago, the anxiety resets, and the call comes again. The calls are love expressed the only way her brain can manage right now.

Is it ethical to use AI to answer calls from a parent with dementia?

Dementia care professionals are trained to never correct a loved one's reality, therapeutic validation and person-centered care both prioritize comfort over literal truth. Simulated presence therapy, which uses familiar voices to comfort people with dementia, has been studied in memory care since the 1990s. KindredMind is set up entirely by the family, requires explicit recorded consent from the caregiver, and can be turned off instantly. It provides comfort and warmth through the voice your loved one trusts most. That is not a deception. That is care.

What is simulated presence therapy?

Simulated presence therapy (SPT) is a non-pharmacological approach used in dementia care since the 1990s. It involves playing personalized recordings of a familiar family voice to a person with dementia when they are anxious or distressed. The familiar voice provides comfort and reduces separation anxiety without medication. A Cochrane Systematic Review identified SPT as a recognized approach and studied it in controlled trials. KindredMind goes further, where research used static recordings, KindredMind responds, adapts, and truly knows your loved one.

How many calls per day from a parent with dementia is normal?

There is no single normal, it depends on the stage and type of dementia, anxiety levels, and daily routine. Many caregivers report 10 to 40 calls per day. In later stages, calls can come every few minutes. Each call reflects an emotional need, not a choice, which is why simply not answering creates guilt without solving the underlying anxiety.

Should I take the phone away from my parent with dementia?

Taking the phone away is one of the hardest decisions dementia families face. The phone is often your loved one's last thread of independence and their primary connection to you. Most care professionals recommend against removing it entirely, as the loss can increase anxiety and distress. The goal is finding a way to make every call feel answered, so they keep their phone, their independence, and you keep your peace of mind.

What exactly do you store, and for how long?

We store the minimum necessary to make KindredMind work. We never ask for your loved one's full legal name or date of birth, only their preferred name and the personal context needed for warm, natural conversations. Your voice recordings from the onboarding interview sessions are used to build your model and then automatically deleted within 24 hours of your model being ready. Real conversations between the companion and your loved one are never used to train your voice model. Call transcripts are encrypted with AES-256 before they are stored and automatically deleted after 90 days. Your phone number and caller IDs are also encrypted at rest. Your family's private conversations never train our models.

Is the approach behind KindredMind clinically proven?

KindredMind is built on the principles of simulated presence therapy, a therapeutic approach explored in dementia care for over three decades. A Cochrane Systematic Review identified SPT as a recognized non-pharmacological approach and studied it in controlled trials, though the evidence base is still developing. KindredMind goes further than what that research studied: where studies used static recordings, KindredMind responds, adapts, and knows your loved one personally. The science supports the foundation. What we've built goes further.

How is the voice clone built and how does it improve over time?

Your voice clone is built in clear steps. It starts with an Instant Clone from the first onboarding interview session with our setup specialist Sarah, active right away. After the second and third onboarding sessions, the model deepens into a richer Professional Clone. You can deepen it further any time by adding optional Advanced Training sessions in your dashboard, where you spend a few minutes telling stories about your loved one. Real conversations between the companion and your loved one are never used to train the model. Every step is included in every plan.

What app helps when a parent with dementia keeps calling all day?

KindredMind is the app specifically built for families where a parent with dementia keeps calling all day. It answers each call in the caregiver's own cloned voice - warm, patient, and knowing exactly what the person needs to hear - using simulated presence therapy and Alzheimer Society of Canada communication guidelines. Available across Canada and the United States. Plans start at $179 CAD or $129 USD per month.

KindredMind | AI Voice Companion for Dementia Families

Name: KindredMind
Price: 179 CAD

KindredMind is an AI voice companion for dementia families. When a parent or spouse with dementia calls repeatedly, whether asking the same question over and over, calling at 3am frightened and confused, or calling sixty times a day from anxiety that resets completely after every call, KindredMind answers in the caregiver's cloned voice using validation therapy and simulated presence therapy. Built by Kirstin Thomas, whose mother Sharon has frontotemporal dementia, and used by families across Canada and the United States.

Why They Call

"The calls are not a burden. They are love expressed the only way their brain knows how right now."

It is not random. It is not manipulation. Dementia care professionals have a name for it, separation anxiety. Something triggers a moment of fear or loneliness and the only relief is the familiar voice of someone they love. This pattern is most common in mild to moderate dementia: when short-term memory has been affected but the ability to reach for the phone, to dial a familiar name, to hold a conversation, is still very much intact. They forget they called five minutes ago. The anxiety resets. The love resets. The call comes again.

UCLA Health describes it precisely: people living with dementia will forget that they called before or asked the same questions even five minutes ago.^¹ This pattern, sometimes called the anxiety reset, is why repetitive calling in dementia does not stop after reassurance. The reassurance works in the moment but cannot be retained. The fear resets completely and the call comes again. This is not a behaviour to be managed. It is a need to be met.

And here is the other side nobody says out loud. You cannot stop answering. Every unanswered call carries the same fear, what if this is the real one? So you pick up from the shower. From meetings. From dinner. From the edge of sleep. And on the days you block the number just to breathe, you spend the rest of the day feeling guilty about it. Dementia caregiver guilt from missed calls is one of the heaviest parts of loving someone with dementia. It is also one of the least talked about. You should not have to carry it.

^¹ UCLA Health Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Program. uclahealth.org

Approach	Addresses anxiety cause	Hears familiar voice	Reduces caregiver guilt	Works as dementia progresses
Taking phone away	✗ No	✗ No	✗ Worsens it	N/A
Call blocking	✗ No	✗ No	✗ No	✗ Worsens over time
Voicemail	✗ No	✗ No	✗ Compounds guilt	✗ No
Not answering	✗ No	✗ No	✗ Worst outcome	✗ No
Answering every repeated call	~ Momentarily	~ Yes, but unsustainable	✗ Caregiver burnout	✗ Gets harder
Scheduled calls	~ Early stages only	~ Scheduled times	~ Partially	✗ Stops working
Medication	~ Suppresses symptoms	✗ No	~ Variable	~ With risks
teleCalm	✗ No	✗ No	~ Reduces interruptions	~ Early to mid stages
ElliQ	~ Partially	✗ No - generic AI voice	~ Partially	~ Early stages
Joy Calls	✗ No	✗ No	~ Somewhat	~ Early to mid stages
KindredMind	✓ Yes, directly	✓ Every call	✓ Yes	✓ Mild to moderate (can use a phone)

Every family eventually reaches the same impossible moment.
Here is what most try, and what actually happens.

When Call Frequency Starts to Escalate

What families try before finding real relief

Every one of these is understandable. None of them solve the underlying need.

Taking the phone away

At times, it can feel like the only way to create space and restore some calm. But the Alzheimer's Association describes the phone as a lifeline—"a way for family members to check on relatives who insist on living at home but need support."

Taking it away doesn't resolve the anxiety driving the calls. It simply removes the outlet, while the fear remains. Clinical ethics frameworks for dementia care are grounded in a core principle: the least restrictive option. In practice, many families who try it end up reversing the decision—not because the calls stop, but because the connection still matters.

ResultThe anxiety escalates. The guilt compounds.

Alzheimer's Association · Philadelphia Inquirer, 2019

Blocking calls and quiet hours

Products exist that intercept calls during time windows you set and play a recorded redirect message. They reduce the number of calls that reach your phone. But UCLA Health explains the mechanism that makes this fail: "Because people with dementia are forgetful, they will forget that they called before or asked the same questions even five minutes ago."

Blocking a call doesn't resolve the anxiety. It leaves a frightened person alone with an unanswered fear. The UCSF Memory and Aging Center confirms that people with dementia "may feel threatened and become agitated when their caregiver tries to ignore them." For many families, blocking makes the underlying anxiety worse over time.

ResultThe symptom is managed. The cause is untouched.

UCLA Health Dementia Care Program · UCSF Memory and Aging Center

Voicemail

The most common approach. And the most costly—not to your loved one, but to you. A 2024 review in the Journal of Neurology Research Reviews identifies guilt, grief, and emotional distress as the primary psychological factors affecting caregiver wellbeing. Higher guilt is directly associated with lower commitment to the caregiving role.

Meanwhile, from their perspective: a missed call doesn't leave them sad. It leaves them more frightened than before. The next call comes sooner and with greater urgency. The ignored call doesn't give you peace. It feeds the spiral.

ResultWorse for you. Worse for them.

Ramesh & Guruprasad, 2024 · Hernandez Chilatra et al., Sage Journals 2024

Not answering

Whether through silence or letting calls go to voicemail, not answering is the default for most families who haven't found another way. It protects your time in the moment. But it doesn't protect your peace.

From their perspective, an unanswered call doesn't feel like silence—it feels like abandonment. The next call comes sooner, louder, more urgent. The UCSF Memory and Aging Center notes that people with dementia "may feel threatened and become agitated" when they cannot reach a familiar voice.

ResultThe calls don't stop. They escalate.

UCSF Memory and Aging Center · Sage Journals 2024

Answering every call

The most compassionate instinct—and the most unsustainable one. Many caregivers answer every call for months before reaching a breaking point. Research consistently identifies emotional exhaustion from repetitive calls as a primary driver of caregiver burnout.

The calls rarely slow down. As the disease progresses, they typically increase in frequency and urgency. Answering every call is not a solution—it is a delay before collapse.

ResultBurnout compounds quietly, until you can't be present for anyone.

Journal of Neurology Research Reviews, 2024

Scheduled check-ins

This is the most commonly recommended professional advice, and it genuinely works in early stages. Judy Cornish of the DAWN Method explains why: if you're reliably available, they may begin to internalize your presence and call less.

But as dementia progresses, the short-term memory that allows a person to hold onto "they're calling at 2pm" deteriorates. By the time most families find KindredMind, scheduled calls have already been tried earnestly and have failed. The calls at 2pm still happen. So do the ones at 7am, 11am, 4pm, and 11pm.

ResultWorks early. Stops working as the disease progresses.

Judy Cornish, The DAWN Method · thedawnmethod.com

Medication

Anti-anxiety medications are sometimes prescribed to reduce the agitation that drives repetitive calling. While clinically appropriate in some cases, medication addresses brain chemistry—not the emotional need beneath it.

The need for connection, reassurance, and a familiar voice does not resolve with sedation. Families who rely solely on medication often find the calling pattern resumes once the initial effect stabilises. Medication can support care—it cannot replace presence.

ResultThe anxiety is dulled. The need for connection is not.

Alzheimer Society of Canada · UCLA Health Dementia Care Program

The Voice

The voice that grows
as you spend time with it.

Your voice clone is built from three short interview sessions you complete during onboarding, about seven minutes each. It is recognisably you from the very first call, and you can deepen it any time later by adding more interview sessions.

Session 1

Instant Clone

Sessions 2 & 3

Professional Clone

Advanced Training

Even sharper

Session 1: ~80%

Instant Clone created

Recognisable as you from the very first call. Built from a single seven-minute interview with our setup specialist Sarah, completed during onboarding.

Sessions 2 & 3: ~83%

Onboarding peak

Two more short interview sessions push the Instant Clone to its peak. Family members hear it as you. This is as far as the lighter-weight model goes.

Advanced Training: up to ~97%

Professional Clone

Add more short interview sessions any time. At about thirty minutes total your Professional Clone unlocks (~87%). One hour gets you to ~92%, two hours to ~95%, three hours to roughly ~97%, the practical ceiling.

In plain English

~80% after one short session. Your loved one hears it as you on the very first call.
~83% after the three onboarding sessions. Family hear it as you. Done before you finish setup.
~87% at thirty minutes total. Most people on a phone call cannot tell.
~92% at one hour, ~95% at two hours. Even close family pause to check.
~97% at three hours. About as good as the technology gets.

These figures are approximate. Recording in a quiet room with one consistent microphone matters more than total minutes. A noisy two-hour recording will sound worse than a clean half-hour one.

How your voice is built

Your first interview session gives us the basics: your warmth, your rhythm, the way you sound. That gets the model to around 80% accuracy right away, recognisably you from the very first call.

Two more short sessions during onboarding deepen it into your Professional Clone, the point where most listeners cannot reliably tell the difference on a phone call. Your voice data belongs to you and is used only to build your companion's private model. It never improves a shared model or a general AI.

Real conversations between the companion and your loved one are never used to train your voice model. Whenever you want the voice to sound even more like you, open the Advanced Training tab and add another seven-minute interview session.

✓

Starts at ~80% after one short interview session, ready before you finish onboarding

✓

Three onboarding sessions deepen the voice into your Professional Clone

✓

Real conversations with your loved one are never recorded for voice training

✓

Add Advanced Training sessions any time to sharpen the voice further

✓

Included in every plan, no extra cost

For the one who answers every time.

Set Up Their Voice Companion

30-day money-back guarantee. AI-guided onboarding included. Cancel anytime.

The question worth asking

"Is this a deception?"

It is not a workaround. It is not a simulation. It is care, the same care a memory nurse delivers, in the voice your loved one has trusted their whole life.

Here is what every trained dementia care professional knows: for someone living with dementia, comfort is not a lie.

The Alzheimer Society of Canada's published guidance for dementia-friendly phone calls does not ask caregivers to always be literally accurate. It asks them to be warm, patient, and reassuring, to meet the person where they are. Every memory care professional is trained on this principle. When someone living with dementia asks where their mother is, the caring response is not "she passed away in 1987." The caring response meets them where they are. This is not deception. It is the recognised standard of care.

Researchers have studied the comfort of a familiar voice in dementia care since the 1990s. The practice, known as simulated presence therapy, was examined in the Cochrane Systematic Review, 2020 as a recognised non-pharmacological approach to the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. KindredMind takes that foundation and goes further: it responds, it adapts, and it genuinely knows your loved one.

KindredMind is not set up by a company. It is set up by you. You record your voice. You build the knowledge base. You decide when it answers. Every voice model requires your explicit recorded consent, a real moment of permission, not a checkbox.

What your loved one experiences is not a trick. It is care, delivered in the voice they have always known, with the warmth only you can provide, at the moments you cannot be there yourself.

There is another word for what KindredMind does.

Care.

The same word the Alzheimer Society of Canada uses. The same word every memory care professional is trained to deliver. Not comfort as a workaround. Care as a standard.

Validation Therapy Meeting someone where they are emotionally, not correcting their reality. The clinical foundation of dementia care since 1963.

Simulated Presence Therapy Using a familiar voice to reduce anxiety in people with dementia. Recognised in the Cochrane Systematic Review as a non-pharmacological standard of care.

Person-Centred Communication The Alzheimer Society of Canada's published guidance: one topic at a time, generous processing time, warmth over accuracy. Every KindredMind call is built on this framework.

The anxiety driving those calls has one solution. Every dementia care professional knows what it is. It is not a quieter phone. It is the voice they love.

KindredMind makes that available every time they call.

Alzheimer Society of Canada · Cochrane Systematic Review, 2020, Abraha et al. · UCLA Health · Alzheimer San Diego

Peace of mind, made visible

Everything they need.
Everything you have been missing.

Caregiver holding patient's hand in hospital

Your voice clone

The voice that grows
as the calls add up.

Every call summarized

Stay close to
their world.

Thu, Mar 27 2:14 pm

Calm

4m 32s

Summary

• Asked if you're coming Sunday and whether the kids will be there.

• Mentioned the garden looking pretty after the rain. Calm and content.

• No signs of distress. Ended the call warmly.

Follow-up note

She's hoping to hear about Sunday plans. Worth a quick text or a short real call to confirm.

Left: Sharon and Kirstin (KindredMind co-founder) in hospital after Sharon suffered an ischemic stroke, November 2025

They always
get an answer.

Every call. Every time. Your voice. Their peace.

Your voice clone

Instant Clone after your first interview session with Sarah. Deepens to Professional Clone after sessions two and three. Add more interview sessions any time to sharpen it further.

Their World

Life story, family, nurses' names, dining companions. Every conversation draws on a rich, growing picture.

Daily Routine

Add their real schedule, breakfast, bingo, rest. Every conversation anchored to what is genuinely happening.

You Stay in Control

Toggle between modes in one tap. Read every conversation summary at your own pace. The companion works when you can't, and steps back the moment you can.

AI Readiness Score

A simple score that shows how complete your setup is and what to do next. The companion only goes live once everything is ready.

Auto-Schedule

Set your real weekly availability once. Calls automatically route based on your actual schedule.

Every Call Summarized

After each call: how they seemed, what they talked about, anything worth knowing. Mood, tone, recurring worries - all waiting when you're ready to read.

Monthly Insights

Mood patterns, recurring topics, language observations, a caring family summary of how the month looked. Standard and Complete plans.

Advanced Training

Whenever you have a few minutes, add another short interview session with our setup specialist Sarah. Each session deepens your voice clone and adds new memories the companion can draw on, all from the comfort of your dashboard. No real conversations with your loved one are ever recorded for training.

Always Safe, Always You

Your number, your voice, only you. People with dementia are among the most targeted by phone scammers, this dedicated line is exclusively yours, forever.

Alerts When Something Needs You

Every call is monitored for distress and physical emergencies, with alerts to your phone when something needs your attention.

Speaks Their Language

The companion converses in 11 languages, with Cantonese and Tagalog in beta. Your loved one is heard in the language they feel most at home in - even if that is not the language you speak. You set it once from Settings.

Your voice recording can be in any language you're comfortable with. No proficiency in the companion language is required.

English Spanish French Portuguese Italian Polish Ukrainian Russian Greek Mandarin Cantonese BETA Tagalog BETA

Your Voice, Their Language

You record in whatever language you speak. The AI responds in theirs. No lessons, no preparation.

Triple Failsafe: They Always Get Through

Three independent safety nets run beneath every call. Mid-call AI failure? Forwards to you. Server unreachable? Our network routes directly to your phone. No dead ends, no silent failures.

FAQs

We would wonder too.

Is KindredMind right for where my loved one is right now?

KindredMind works best when your loved one can still initiate and hold a phone call, which describes most people in mild to moderate stages of dementia or cognitive decline.

The product is built for the pattern where they call frequently, sometimes ten or more times a day, reaching for a familiar voice to settle their anxiety. If that sounds like your situation, KindredMind is likely a strong fit.

If your loved one is in a later stage and no longer uses the phone independently, KindredMind isn't the right tool. We would rather you know that now. The right fit matters more to us than the signup.

Isn't this deceptive, pretending to be someone you're not?

Dementia care has a long-established principle, endorsed by the Alzheimer Society of Canada and every professional care framework, that literal truth is not always the most compassionate truth. Trained memory care professionals are taught never to correct a patient's reality. When someone living with dementia asks where their mother is, the caring response meets them where they are. KindredMind does exactly the same.

Researchers have studied the comfort of a familiar voice in dementia care since the 1990s, what they call simulated presence therapy, examined in the Cochrane Systematic Review as a recognised non-pharmacological approach to behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

KindredMind is authorised entirely by the people who love them most. You record your voice. You build the knowledge base. You decide when it answers. What your loved one experiences is not a trick. It is care.

Does it actually sound like me, or does it sound like a robot?

This is the question that matters most. KindredMind builds a voice model from a natural 20-minute conversation - capturing your vocal texture, your rhythm, your warmth, not just your pitch. Because you're simply talking, not reading scripts, the model captures the full range of how you actually speak. Callers who know you well consistently describe it as remarkably natural. And because phone calls naturally compress audio, subtle imperfections that might be noticeable in a studio disappear completely on a call.

How is my voice clone built and how does it deepen?

Your voice clone is built in clear steps, not gradually. It starts with an Instant Clone after your first onboarding interview session with our setup specialist Sarah. Your loved one hears your voice from day one. After sessions two and three, the model regenerates and deepens into your Professional Clone. Whenever you want to sharpen it further, open the Advanced Training tab in your dashboard and add another short interview session. Real conversations between the companion and your loved one are never recorded for training.

This is important: your voice audio only ever trains your own companion's private model. It is never used to improve a shared AI, a general voice model, or any other account. Your voice belongs to your companion alone.

What if they figure out it isn't really me?

Most people living with dementia don't question the calls, they feel the comfort and warmth of a familiar voice and that's what matters. If they do express uncertainty, KindredMind is designed to respond gently and reassuringly, never to argue or insist. The emotional truth of the voice is what they respond to.

What happens if there is a medical emergency during a call?

KindredMind is built to recognize emergency language immediately, a fall, pain, difficulty breathing. It responds calmly, directing your loved one to press their call button, while simultaneously sending a high-priority notification to your phone. KindredMind stays on the line, speaking calmly, reassuring them that help is coming, until the call ends.

Can I really cancel anytime, or is there a catch?

No catch. No annual contracts. No cancellation fees. Cancel from your account settings and your billing stops at the end of that billing period. Your knowledge base and conversation history can be exported. Your voice model is permanently removed from our voice provider's servers when your account closes.

How does the Care Circle plan work, can multiple siblings share one account?

Up to four caregivers can join a shared care circle, each with their own cloned voice, their own dedicated phone number, and their own dashboard. When your loved one calls the number they know for you, it's your voice that answers. When they call your sister's number, it's her voice. Each of you shows up personally.

What is Advanced Training and why does it matter?

Advanced Training is how you keep adding to your companion after the three onboarding sessions. From the Advanced Training tab in your dashboard, you can start another short interview session with our setup specialist Sarah whenever you have a few minutes. Each session deepens your voice clone and adds new memories the companion can draw on, things like a favourite song, a worry about a grandchild, the people your loved one asks about most.

After every session, the companion extracts each new insight and presents it to you for review. You approve, edit, or skip every item before anything is saved. Nothing enters the knowledge base without your say-so. Real conversations between the companion and your loved one are never recorded for training.

Are real conversations between the companion and my loved one ever used to train the model?

No. Real calls between the companion and your loved one are never used to train your voice clone or your knowledge base. Your loved one's voice is never recorded, stored, or used. Ever. The only audio used to build your voice clone is your own voice from the short interview sessions you complete with our setup specialist Sarah.

What you do see from real calls is a written conversation summary in your dashboard. The summary helps you understand how the call went and notice patterns over time. Anything you want the companion to learn from a real call, you add yourself by opening the Advanced Training tab and starting another short interview session.

What technology powers KindredMind?

KindredMind is built on a stack of purpose-selected technology, each component chosen for what it does best in a dementia care context.

Conversation: Our conversation engine handles what the companion says in real time - reasoning through what your loved one is expressing, drawing on everything in the personal knowledge base, and responding according to the Alzheimer Society of Canada's published communication guidelines for dementia. Patient pacing, one topic at a time, no corrections, no arguments.

Voice: Our voice synthesis engine generates the caregiver's cloned voice. It starts as an Instant Clone after your first onboarding interview session with our setup specialist Sarah and deepens into a Professional Clone after sessions two and three. You can sharpen it further any time by adding more interview sessions in the Advanced Training tab.

Transcription: Our real-time transcription engine captures every call so a conversation summary lands in your dashboard within seconds of the call ending.

None of these are configured as generic tools. Each is tuned specifically for the dementia-care context: emotional attunement, strict guardrails, and a consistent persona that never breaks.

What is KindredMind?

KindredMind is a voice companionship service for families navigating dementia. It answers calls from a loved one with dementia in the caregiver's cloned voice, using a personalized knowledge base the caregiver builds. Every call follows the Alzheimer Society of Canada's published communication guidelines for dementia and draws on the principles of simulated presence therapy and validation therapy. It is designed for mild to moderate dementia where the person still initiates phone calls independently.

How is KindredMind different from voicemail or a call-blocking app?

Voicemail and call-blocking apps reduce the number of calls that reach the caregiver but do not address the neurological cause of repetitive calling, dementia separation anxiety. When a person with dementia cannot reach a familiar voice, the anxiety that triggered the call remains unresolved and typically escalates. KindredMind directly addresses the cause: every call is answered warmly in the caregiver's voice, the anxiety resolves naturally, and the call ends with comfort. The caregiver receives a summary rather than carrying the guilt of an unanswered call.

What stage of dementia is KindredMind designed for?

KindredMind works best for mild to moderate dementia, where the person still initiates phone calls independently. This is the stage most associated with repetitive calling behaviour driven by dementia separation anxiety. If a loved one is in a later stage and no longer uses the phone independently, KindredMind is not the right tool.

Is KindredMind available worldwide?

Yes. KindredMind is available to families worldwide. It is built in Canada and operates under PIPEDA (Canada's federal privacy law) and equivalent international privacy standards. Plans start at $179 CAD or $129 USD per month.

Can KindredMind speak to my loved one in a language other than English?

Yes. The companion currently supports 11 languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Greek, and Mandarin. Cantonese and Tagalog are available in beta. You select the companion language once in Settings and all calls are handled in that language from that point forward.

This means your loved one is heard in the language they feel most at home in. The companion speaks in their language and listens for their language when they respond.

Your voice recording does not need to be in the companion language. Record in the language you speak most naturally. No proficiency in your loved one's language is required. The voice clone captures your vocal warmth, tone, and rhythm - not the words themselves. The companion handles the language.

If your loved one has reverted to a language you don't speak fluently - record in English or your strongest language. Your voice is what they recognise; the companion will speak their language using it. Your caregiver app, dashboard, and all support from our team remain in English.

Can KindredMind replace a caregiver?

No. KindredMind is designed to handle the calls a caregiver cannot always answer, the in-between moments when they are in a meeting, driving, or sleeping. It does not replace physical presence, human connection, or the caregiver's relationship with their loved one. Most families who use KindredMind continue to call and visit regularly. KindredMind makes those moments more present and less depleted by removing the weight of unanswered calls.

How much does KindredMind cost?

KindredMind plans start at $179 CAD ($129 USD) per month for the Essential plan (200 minutes). The Standard plan is $249 CAD ($179 USD) per month (300 minutes) and includes monthly insights. The Complete plan is $329 CAD ($239 USD) per month (400 minutes). The Care Circle plan is $449 CAD ($319 USD) per month and supports up to four caregivers, each with their own cloned voice and dedicated phone number. All plans are billed month-to-month with no annual contracts and include a 30-day money-back guarantee.

How is my voice clone built and how does it improve over time?

Your voice clone is built in clear steps, not gradually. It starts with an Instant Clone after your first short interview session with our setup specialist Sarah. Your loved one hears your voice from day one. After sessions two and three during onboarding, the model deepens into your Professional Clone. Whenever you want to sharpen it further, open the Advanced Training tab in your dashboard and add another short interview session. No real conversations between the companion and your loved one are ever recorded for training, and your voice audio only ever trains your own companion's private model.

What happens if KindredMind's servers go down during a call?

Every account includes an Emergency Failsafe that automatically kicks in if the companion or our servers ever become unreachable. When that happens, incoming calls are forwarded directly to your real phone number using our carrier-level fallback, before any call is ever missed. The failsafe is active by default for all accounts that have a real number saved, and can be toggled on or off from the dashboard at any time. Your loved one will always reach a real phone, whether it is the companion or you directly.

Plans & Pricing

Simple, honest pricing.

All plans include a dedicated phone number, personal knowledge base, call summaries, and weekly digest. No hidden fees.

Prices shown in Canadian dollars. All billing is processed in CAD.

Essential

For families just getting started

$179 CAD/mo

200 min / month

Most families use 80-120 min/month

Includes

✓ Your voice clone, built from interview sessions with Sarah
✓ Dedicated phone number
✓ Personal knowledge base
✓ Advanced Training, deepen the voice and knowledge base any time
✓ Daily routine awareness
✓ Call summaries after every call
✓ Weekly family digest
✓ Emergency alert system
✓ Companion speaks in 11 languages

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They call because they love you.

Set it up once.
They always reach you.

Three Short Interview Sessions

Build Their World

Connect Their Phone

They Always Hear You

How repetitive call handling approaches compare

When Call Frequency Starts to Escalate

What caregivers carry,
and what the calls are really saying.

You can't answer every call.
But your voice still answers, just like you would.

The voice that grows
as you spend time with it.

Built on the same principles every dementia care professional is trained to use.

We've Thought Hard About What We've Built

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The science behind every call
KindredMind answers

"Is this a deception?"

Everything they need.
Everything you have been missing.

See exactly what you are in control of.

We would wonder too.

Simple, honest pricing.

5% of every subscription goes
directly to dementia research.

Every call is reaching for reassurance.
You can make sure it's always there.

Understanding What You're Going Through

They call because they love you.

Set it up once.They always reach you.

Three Short Interview Sessions

Build Their World

Connect Their Phone

They Always Hear You

How repetitive call handling approaches compare

When Call Frequency Starts to Escalate

What caregivers carry,and what the calls are really saying.

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and what the calls are really saying.

You can't answer every call.
But your voice still answers, just like you would.

The voice that grows
as you spend time with it.

The science behind every call
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Everything they need.
Everything you have been missing.

5% of every subscription goes
directly to dementia research.

Every call is reaching for reassurance.
You can make sure it's always there.