Product lab for aging and family caregiving
Practical products for families caring for aging parents.
TheirTMRW develops and shares affordable digital tools and connected products that help families and other unpaid caregivers support the independence, safety, communication, and daily care of older adults.
We started with elder care challenges in our own family.
My wife and I have encountered many of the challenges that come with caring for aging parents. Some are significant. Others are small, recurring problems that existing products do not address particularly well.
I'm Marc Scibelli, a designer and builder. I began creating tools for problems we were experiencing ourselves. TheirTMRW takes what we learn from those experiences and turns it into products, practical guidance, and shared work that can help a broader group of older adults and the people caring for them.
The purpose is not to build a collection of conventional product businesses. It is to make useful tools available at an affordable price, provide additional help when a family cannot pay, and put any money received back into producing, supporting, and developing the work.
Small, useful responses to real caregiving problems.
Our work may take the form of software, AI-assisted tools, connected hardware, or an idea shared openly for someone else to build.
We focus on problems that affect an older adult's independence, privacy, communication, safety, or daily life. We also consider the work required from family members and other unpaid caregivers, particularly when existing products add more setup, monitoring, or technical support.
How we work
- 01Start with a problem experienced by older adults and their caregivers
- 02Reduce work instead of introducing another system to manage
- 03Respect the older adult's independence, dignity, and privacy
- 04Keep products affordable, understandable, and practical to maintain
- 05Provide reduced-cost or no-cost access when funding allows
- 06Share useful findings and resources that may help others
Affordability and access
TheirTMRW creates products for families caring for older adults, with a focus on keeping them affordable and practical to maintain.
TheirTMRW operates as a public-interest product lab. Software will be offered without required subscription fees whenever possible. Hardware will be priced to recover some of the cost of building, operating, and supporting it, rather than to maximize profit.
As resources allow, some hardware products may also be offered without charge.
TheirTMRW may eventually pursue 501(c)(3) nonprofit status if grants, charitable donations, or a larger sponsored-access program become necessary to support this work.
Our first product
PrintSender
A simpler way to send something tangible.
PrintSender helps family members and other unpaid caregivers send photographs, notes, reminders, and useful information to a small printer near an older adult.
It is designed for situations where opening an app, remembering a password, finding a message, or navigating a screen may be difficult or unreliable. The recipient does not need to operate the device to receive a printed page.
We first built PrintSender for a need in our own family. We are now working to make it available to other families facing similar communication barriers.
Every useful product starts with a real problem.
If your family has faced a problem that existing products do not handle well, we would like to hear about it. You can also get in touch if you are interested in PrintSender, have experience relevant to this work, or want to help make a useful idea available to more families.
Prefer email? Write to us directly at
info@theirtmrw.com