The Caregiver Clock

Caregiving runs on time you don’t have. Here’s the math.

Coordination — calls, portals, paperwork, repeating the same story — is the invisible second job. This is a transparent estimate of how much of it Eleplan gives back, category by category.

The Eleplan clock · the math behind it

How much of your week disappears
into coordination — and where it goes.

Move the slider to your caregiving load. The page shows the same breakdown the FCA uses for coordination time, mapped against the Eleplan feature that reclaims each chunk. The headline number is the sum of the table — not a marketing average.

Get those hours back →
11 hrs / wk
3 · light11 · average (FCA)24 · heavy
Where it goesHrs/wkEleplan handlesReclaimed
  • Phone / calls with providers22%2.4Ellie pre-loads context · drafts call notes25%0.6
  • Portal logins, scattered records19%2.1Plan inbox · OCR · auto-filing90%1.9
  • Documents (EOBs, scripts, IDs)16%1.8Inbox · OCR · per-plan vector retrieval95%1.7
  • Pharmacy + refill management14%1.5Refill tool · Ellie pickup reminders70%1.1
  • Calendar + appointments12%1.3Date extraction · Patient Agent watchlist50%0.7
  • Benefits / claim chasing11%1.2Nightly Patient Agent · flagged amounts65%0.8
  • Family communication6%0.7Sharing · per-plan summaries · SMS55%0.4
Total11.0weighted avg 64%7.0
Reclaimed / wk
7hrs
Reclaimed / mo
30.5hrs
Reclaimed / yr
366.4hrs
Working days / yr
45.8days
Still on you (the messy human bits worth being there for): 4.0 hrs / wkshares sum to 100%
24hrs / wk
Average time an informal family caregiver spends on care
AARP, “Caregiving in the U.S.,” 2023
11hrs / wk
Of that, spent on coordination — calls, portals, paper-chasing
Family Caregiver Alliance, synthesis
83Mpeople
Adults in the U.S. doing unpaid caregiving for a loved one
AARP / National Alliance for Caregiving
Methodology

Base hours: AARP & National Alliance for Caregiving, Caregiving in the U.S. 2023 — 24 hrs/wk average informal caregiver time, of which Family Caregiver Alliance synthesis attributes 7–12 hrs/wk specifically to coordination. We default the slider to 11.

Category shares: FCA caregiver-burden breakdowns + ARCHANGELS landscape data, normalized to sum to 100% of coordination time. Shares are time-weighted, not task-count-weighted.

Per-feature coverage: Eleplan internal product-flow audit (Q1 2026). Coverage is the share of category time that the named Eleplan surface handles end-to-end today — not a future-state claim. Lower numbers (calls: 25%) reflect that a phone conversation still happens; higher numbers (documents: 95%) reflect that OCR + inbox replaces nearly all manual filing.

Reproducibility: the slider input, the category table, and the result row are the same numbers in this component’s source. Nothing on the page is rounded for show. Tune the assumptions and the page re-renders honestly.