Families

Give families peace of mind, and share the load

Family and friends are the backbone of care at home. The Howz app gives them adjustable wellbeing notifications based on a loved one’s home activity, so care responsibilities do not fall on one person alone.

  • Quickly spot the difference between usual and unusual activity
  • Add family or carer access with a single email, and remove it just as easily
  • Privacy built in: no personal data about the home or the user is collected or revealed
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Unpaid carers provide four times more care than all paid care combinedAnnual value of adult social care in England, by who provides or pays for itPaid care (councils + self-funders + NHS) = £35.3bn. Unpaid care = £151.8bn.
£0£50bn£100bn£150bnUnpaid carersFamily and friends£151.8bnCouncilsLocal authority-funded£18.5bnSelf-fundersPaid for privately£11.0bnNHSe.g. continuing healthcare£5.9bn

Sources: paid care – LaingBuisson, Adult Social Care in the UK: Scale, Structure, Funding and Financial Performance of the Independent Sector (October 2024), England 2022/23, value of care services supplied by funder. Unpaid care – Petrillo & Bennett, Valuing Carers 2021: England and Wales (Carers UK / Centre for Care, May 2023), Table 2, England 2021, replacement cost at £25/hour. Figures are from different years (2021 and 2022/23) and different methods: paid care is actual spending; unpaid care is the estimated cost of replacing it with paid homecare.

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