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Kedara Guide is a free chat assistant that helps family caregivers find local aging care resources fast. No account, no login, no password — you open the page and start typing.
You don't need to know any medical or government terminology. Explain it in your own words, the same way you'd explain it to a friend. Guide will ask follow-up questions if it needs more information.
It searches a curated database of verified Bay Area aging care resources — filtered to your county and the type of help you need — and combines that information into a clear, specific answer.
Resource cards below each answer show the organization, a phone number you can tap to call, and a brief description. Guide tells you exactly who to call and what to say.
Anything about aging care in the San Francisco Bay Area. A few examples families ask:
Yes. Kedara Guide can help you find government programs for seniors in your county, such as IHSS, Medi-Cal, Medicare, PACE and SSI. It gives you a short description of each program and the agency to contact. Only the program or your county agency can confirm whether your parent qualifies, so check with them directly.
Yes. Kedara Guide covers all 9 SF Bay Area counties: San Francisco, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Marin, Sonoma, Napa and Solano. Tell it which county your parent lives in, and it will look for local resources and phone numbers there. Please confirm details with the provider before you act.
Kedara Guide can help you find in-home care options in your county, including IHSS, private home care agencies and non-profit programs, and the county resources that give referrals. It does not book caregivers or make placements. It also cannot tell you whether an agency is taking new clients, so contact the agency directly.
Yes, by helping you find local resources. Kedara Guide can point you to memory care programs, adult day programs, caregiver support groups and the Alzheimer’s Association’s local services in your county.
Kedara Guide is not an emergency service. If your parent is in immediate danger, call 911. For suspected elder abuse, contact your county’s Adult Protective Services. Kedara Guide can help you find that number. For a mental health crisis, call or text 988.
No. Kedara Guide is not a lawyer and cannot give legal advice. It can explain what a durable power of attorney is, why an advance health directive matters, and when conservatorship becomes necessary, and then point you to free legal aid organizations in your county. For anything legally binding, please consult an elder law attorney.
No. Kedara Guide gives you local resources and phone numbers, and you make the calls. Please confirm details with the provider when you call.
No. Kedara Guide covers only the nine SF Bay Area counties. For other areas, call 211, which is free and available nationwide, or the Eldercare Locator at (800) 677-1116.
No. Each Kedara Guide conversation starts fresh. Guide does not use details from your earlier conversations. If you come back, start with a short summary of your situation, such as “My 82-year-old mother with Parkinson’s lives in Alameda County.” That gives Guide the context it needs quickly.
Kedara Guide and Kedara App are in English today. We are building a multilingual voice interface over the next three to six months.
Yes, completely free. There is no subscription, no sign-up and no hidden fees. Kedara Guide is free for all families. We currently support San Francisco Bay Area residents only.
Your conversation is private and anonymous. Kedara does not sell your data. Kedara Guide does not ask who you are, and conversations are not linked to you. We keep logs and traces of the conversations to improve Guide’s accuracy, so please avoid sharing names or other personal details in your messages. See our full privacy policy at https://kedara.care/privacy.
No. Kedara does not sell your information or share it with care providers, insurers, government agencies or advertisers. You may choose to receive updates about new features and partner programs that can help you manage care and respite.
We are currently exploring referral and product partnerships. If you represent an organization interested in improving the caregiver experience or delivering home healthcare, please contact us at [email protected].
Kedara Guide answers from our curated knowledge base of Bay Area aging care resources. We build it from public records and other sources, and our team keeps reviewing and improving it. We also test Guide's answers before each update. If our information on a topic is limited, Guide will tell you.
If Kedara Guide doesn't have a good answer, it will say so and suggest who to contact instead, usually 211 (free, 24/7, many languages), your county's Area Agency on Aging, or a specialist. It will never make up an answer.
