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Connecting your Google Calendar

If you already keep your appointments in Google Calendar, you can bring them into SeniorThrive so everything sits in one place. Here is how to connect, what shows up, and how to disconnect.

Written by Brian Fluhr

If you already keep your doctor appointments, family birthdays, and weekly plans in Google Calendar, you do not need to enter them twice. Connect Google Calendar once, and your existing events appear alongside your SeniorThrive reminders, right where you expect to see them.

One place for everything you have planned.

To connect your Google Calendar

  1. Go to My Day → Calendar from the side menu.

  2. Tap Connect Google Calendar.

  3. You will be taken to Google to sign in. Use the Google account where your calendar lives.

  4. Google will ask if SeniorThrive can see your calendar. Tap Allow.

  5. You will be brought back to SeniorThrive, and your events will start showing up within a few seconds.

What appears, and what does not

Your existing Google Calendar events show up on your SeniorThrive calendar. Doctor appointments, lunch with a friend, a birthday. You will see them on the day they are scheduled, along with whatever notes, times, and locations you saved in Google.

It works the other way too: SeniorThrive can place its own reminders, like your medication doses, onto your Google Calendar so they show up on your phone, smart speaker, or watch. SeniorThrive sends the reminder either way; your Google Calendar simply mirrors it. We never delete your Google events or change what you created there.

Your calendar is private

Your calendar events belong to you. Nobody in your Circle sees them unless you turn that on in Preferences → Privacy. Even then, you choose who sees what.

We also do not sell any of it, ever. If you want the full picture, read the privacy article.

To disconnect later

If you ever change your mind, go back to My Day → Calendar and tap Disconnect. Your Google Calendar events stop appearing in SeniorThrive right away. Nothing is deleted from Google. You can reconnect any time.

If events are not showing up

Try these, in order:

  • Make sure you signed in with the right Google account. Many people have more than one.

  • Check that the events are on the dates you expect in Google Calendar itself.

  • Tap Refresh on the SeniorThrive calendar to pull the latest.

  • If you use a work or school Google account, your organization may restrict third-party calendar access. Try connecting a personal Gmail account instead.

If it still does not work, Avery can help.

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