An illustrative scenario.
Daniel is 76. Lives alone in a small apartment in Mississauga. He's a retired teacher — high school history. He reads, walks, volunteers at the library twice a week.
He's healthy. He's fine. He has a daughter Lisa who lives in Vancouver and a sister Joan who lives in St. Catharines. He calls Joan every Sunday. They talk for an hour, sometimes more.
His brother Phil lived alone in Sarnia. They weren't close — hadn't been in years — but they spoke a few times a year.
Phil died in his living room. A heart attack, alone, no phone within reach. Daniel found out when the landlord called Joan to say Phil hadn't been seen for three days.
Three days.
The family drove to Sarnia. Daniel was the one who went to the apartment. He doesn't talk about what he saw, except to say that he hasn't slept the same since.
On the drive home, Daniel realized: if it had been him, the same thing would have happened. Probably worse. Lisa is far away. Joan is busy. Nobody's checking on Daniel every day.
A week after the funeral, Daniel signed himself up for MyDailyCheck.
He picked 8 AM. He picked the "Friendly" personality. He picked Lisa, Joan, and his neighbour Murray as his contact tree.
He set a 60-minute escalation window. "I don't want to be jumping when the phone rings."
He told Lisa what he'd done the same night he did it. She was the first one he told. She thanked him.
The phone rings at 8. He picks up, presses 1, hangs up.
Lisa gets the green check on her dashboard. She doesn't have to ask him how he's doing every day, the way she had started doing in the months after Phil. She knows.
Joan still calls Sundays.
Daniel says the part that surprised him is that he sleeps better. He didn't realize how loud the worry had been — in the back of his head, every night — until it got quiet.
He told his coffee group about it. Two of them signed up.
“I signed up for myself. My sister sees a green check every morning. The fear isn't the loudest thing in the room anymore.”
— Daniel, 76 (illustrative)
If you've had your own moment — the news about a friend, a sibling, someone you knew — and you've started quietly wondering who would notice if it were you, MyDailyCheck was built for exactly that.
More for seniors →Honestly, no. It's the opposite. It's the thing that makes me not think about him every morning.
You don't. You press 1. There's no conversation. About eight seconds.
No. She was the first one I told. She was the first one who said thank you.
$20 a month. That was actually one of the things that made me sign up — it's cheaper than I expected.
First check-in goes out tomorrow morning, at the time you choose.