Alexa Care Hub: how to check in on older relatives

Amazon has rolled stunned the Charge Hub, a set of Alexa features you can usance to remotely check in on older relatives in their homes. That could be especially useful during COVID-19, when some folks aren't able to visit their relatives A oft every bit they ordinarily do. Care Hub is release and well-off to set up — your proportional just needs an Alexa device.

Through Care Hub, Alexa behind send you alerts when your relative first uses their Echo device each morning or if they don't use the device by a certain time. You'll also have access to an activity feed where you can see an overview of their Alexa activity. (Amazon stressed that this was designed with privacy in mind — you put up see the types of activities your relative is doing, but you can't see things like the instructions they'atomic number 75 bounteous Alexa or the specific songs operating room podcasts they're listening to.)

In addition, Care Hub gives your relative an easy way to set your Amazon news report A their emergency contact. That means that if they aver "Alexa, call for help," Alexa volition call you, textbook you, and institutionalise you a push notification. If you see anything concerning yourself, you can too use the Pretermit In feature (which temporarily leverages their Recall gimmick as a 2-way intercommunication system) to gibe in.

To get started with Care Hub, go to Amazon's Care Hub homepage and click "Get moving," or the "Guardianship Hub" section in the Alexa app. Alexa will ask whether you want to provide Oregon receive support; let it know you want to provide support.

You'll attend an invitation connectedness; send that link to your relative, and tell them to follow the instructions. (The process involves signing in with their Amazon explanation, creating a profile, and filling dead a forgetful make. If they get lost, Virago has a manoeuver you can use to walk them through it.)

At length, you'll receive an invitation email from your beloved — it'll go to the destination associated with your Amazon account. Sink in the "Get Started" link in that email, and you're in.