Monitor Your Aging Parent's Mobility Remotely
You can’t be there every day. Pedisteps shows how your parent is really walking, with alerts if gait or balance starts to change.
Smart Balance Insoles · $349 · 3 months GaitIQ then $20/mo
No camera · Setup in minutes · Ages 6+
The Worry You Can't Verify From a Phone Call
Family caregiving in the United States is enormous and mostly invisible: tens of millions of adult children provide unpaid care to aging parents, worth hundreds of billions of dollars in labor that never shows up on a balance sheet. A large share of that caregiving happens at a distance, coordinated through phone calls, occasional visits and hope.
The trouble is that a phone call cannot tell you how your parent is actually walking. “I’m fine” is the answer you get whether your parent’s gait has been rock steady or has quietly deteriorated over the past month. Falls remain one of the leading causes of injury among older adults, and a significant share of older adults experience at least one fall every year, many resulting in an emergency department visit. In most cases, there were warning signs in gait and balance well before the fall itself, they just were not being measured by anyone.
Pedisteps exists for exactly this gap: to give adult children an objective, continuous window into a parent’s mobility, without needing to move in with them or call every single day to ask.
Stay Connected to Your Parent's Mobility
With Pedisteps (Gait & Balance AI Insights), caregivers get a mobile app on iPhone and Android. Open it to check walking and balance signals from the smart insoles, see recent activity, and stay closer to how your parent is moving at home.
You also get a web dashboard (GaitIQ) in the browser. Use it for heatmaps, AI gait analysis, fall risk score, balance trends, alerts, event history, and a clearer view over days and weeks. Share context with family or therapists through the family and therapist portal when you need a second pair of eyes.
How Remote Family Monitoring Works
1. Set your parent up in minutes. The Pedisol insoles go into shoes your parent already wears. No new device to charge nightly, no complicated app to learn beyond the initial pairing.
2. Mobility is tracked automatically. Step count, walking speed, gait symmetry, balance-relevant pressure patterns and weight-bearing are captured passively throughout your parent’s normal day.
3. You see the trend, from anywhere. Log into the companion app or web dashboard to check in on mobility trends, no need to interrogate your parent about how they’re “really” doing.
4. Get flagged on real changes. If gait speed drops, symmetry worsens, or activity falls off in a way that suggests increased fall risk, you and any involved caregiver or clinician can see it early, while it’s still just a trend and not yet an emergency.
Set Up Remote Monitoring for Your Parent
Why This Matters for Your Family
Home recovery after toe surgery
Irena is 68. She lives with osteoporosis and arthritis, and she is recovering at home after toe surgery. Getting around the house should be simple. After surgery it is not. Every hallway walk is a question: is she moving more than yesterday, or protecting the foot without noticing how little she is actually walking?
That is why her recovery includes Pedisteps. The sensors sit in footwear she can wear at home, so mobility and activity are measured in real life, not only in a clinic visit. Her care circle can see whether steps and balance trends are climbing as recovery should, stalling, or slipping, and adjust support before a setback becomes a fall or a longer setback.
For Irena, the dashboard is also a way to understand her own body again. Progress is not a vague feeling after a good morning. It is a clearer picture of how she is loading her feet, how active her days are, and whether recovery is heading the right way. That clarity reduces guesswork for her and for the people watching out for her.
Monitoring and early insight for home recovery. Not a medical device. Not FDA cleared.
What We Know About Falls and Early Warning Signs
National caregiving surveys estimate that tens of millions of Americans are providing unpaid care to an adult family member, most commonly a parent, and that this caregiving is worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually in unpaid labor. A large share of these caregivers live at least an hour from the person they care for, which is exactly the situation remote monitoring is built to help with.
On the clinical side, a substantial proportion of adults over 65 experience a fall each year, and falls are consistently one of the leading causes of both fatal and non-fatal injury in that age group, generating millions of emergency department visits annually. Fall-risk research consistently points to measurable precursors, slowing gait speed, growing left-right asymmetry, and reduced balance confidence, that tend to show up in a person’s walking pattern well before a fall occurs.
The clinical case for early intervention is strong: addressing a mobility decline while it’s still just a trend, with strength training, balance work, or a walking aid, is dramatically more effective than reacting after an injury. Pedisteps is designed to surface exactly that early trend to the people who are close enough to act on it, even if they can’t be there in person every day.
Related reading: how to talk to an aging parent about fall risk, browse Pedisol smart insoles, or check mobility trends anytime in the family dashboard, available on iOS and Android.
