Your Circle is the private group around one older adult. Inviting someone is how it grows.
The steps
Go to Family & Friends, then My Circle.
Open the Our People tab.
Tap Invite someone to strengthen the Circle.
Enter their email and choose how they join.
Send it, or copy a private link and send it yourself.
Once they accept, they appear in Our People and can share in the journal and messages.
Email or private link
An email invitation goes out from us and holds a spot for that person. A private link is yours to send however you like, and holds nothing until somebody uses it.
If they are not expecting mail from a company they have never heard of, use the link. It lands in a text they were waiting for rather than a spam folder, which is where a surprising number of invitations quietly go.
How long it lasts, and cancelling one
A family invitation is good for 14 days. After that the link stops working and you send a fresh one.
Sent one by mistake? Find them under Waiting to join and tap Cancel invitation. The link stops working immediately and the spot is free again.
Who you can invite
Anyone you trust. A spouse, adult children, siblings, in-laws, a neighbour. There is no right way to use it: some people invite one person, some invite everybody.
A professional caregiver is different and has its own path. See How do I invite a professional caregiver?
What they see when they arrive
Only what has been shared with them, and that is set per person. Inviting somebody is not the same as handing them your health information, and it is worth saying so when you send the link.
If there is no room
Essential covers the older adult and one other person. If your Circle is already full, the person you invite is not turned away. They accept, and then the person paying is asked to approve the seat before anything is billed.
Nobody is charged until that approval happens, and nothing expires while it waits. See Someone accepted and now I am being asked to approve them.