CareYaya provides an AI companion for seniors.
CareYaya provides an AI companion for seniors.
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CareYaya’s QuikTok is AI phone companion for lonely aging adults

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

CareYaya Health Technologies has launched QuikTok, an AI phone companion targeted at lonely older adults.

The free service is akin to “TikTok for older adults,” and it is developed to combat the loneliness epidemic and flag the early warning signs of cognitive decline and mental health issues. Of course, in this case, the older folks are talking with AI characters who are not real.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.