How paper, Excel and Notion led us to build Saleem: an Arabic app that helps my father manage his health and helps me stay reassured about my parents, with their consent.
Step by step: create an account, log sugar, blood pressure and weight, follow medicines and lab tests, and share a doctor report by a link that expires.
A health notebook in Arabic for older adults and their families: log readings, follow medicines and lab tests, and share a clear report with your doctor.
When to check, how to log each reading with its moment in Saleem, how to read the averages and the chart, and how to share a clear report with your doctor.
Simple steps to measure blood pressure the same way every time at home, and how the blood-pressure week in Saleem leads to a clear average for your doctor.
A plain guide to the usual columns of a lab report, and how to copy them into Saleem exactly as printed to follow changes between visits. No medical interpretation.
Two ways to help your parents in Saleem: a record you manage for someone who does not use a phone, or an invitation your parent accepts and controls. They always decide.
Seven signs of a health app that suits your parents: real Arabic, large text, few steps, a doctor report, clear privacy, family by consent, and tracking without diagnosis.