Ria: An AI Companion App

Ria is a voice-to-voice AI companion that preserves memories, drives engagement and enables prevantative care. The app talks with older adults in real time, writes up their memories as a living biography, and uses those conversations to support daily care and family connection.

Loneliness among older adults is a quiet but serious health issue. In Germany alone, millions of older people face chronic isolation, a condition that undermines both mental and physical health over time. At the same time, families struggle to coordinate the practical side of caring for a parent or grandparent: medication reminders, appointments, and check-ins that often get reduced to short, transactional phone calls. Care teams, meanwhile, see the medical file but rarely the person behind it: their preferences, dislikes, and the stories that shaped them.

• Give older adults a way to record their life stories through natural, voice-to-voice conversation
• Turn family check-ins into genuine engagement, through shared stories, video calls, and comments
• Support daily independence with reminders for medication, appointments, and routines
• Give care teams a fuller picture of the person they are caring for, beyond medical notes