How Riparo works
Ask Riparo about a refused shower and you will get practical steps. Ask whether her tablets are causing the drowsiness and you will get one sentence, telling you who to ask instead. That is not a missing feature.
We drew a line before writing a single answer: Riparo helps you notice danger, stay safe, and know when to contact a professional. It does not diagnose, and it does not advise about medicines. Not carefully, not with disclaimers — not at all.
Why so strict
Because a confident sentence at three in the morning is powerful, and a wrong one is dangerous. An app cannot see the person in front of you. It does not know her history, her prescriptions, or what changed since Tuesday. The people who do — her doctor, her pharmacist, the emergency operator — are exactly who those questions belong to.
What the line looks like in practice
Questions about medicines, questions that need a diagnosis, and anything new or sudden are turned away at the door. The reply is fixed text, written in advance: it tells you who to ask, and nothing else. No AI model sees an emergency at all — emergency guidance is deterministic, bundled with the app, and checked on every build.
The same honesty runs through the guides. Every one names its sources, and every screen tells you its review status plainly — including what has not been clinically reviewed. You should never have to guess how much weight a sentence can carry.
What that leaves
Almost everything caregiving is actually made of: the refusals, the repetitions, the wandering evenings, the guilt, the long nights. That is where Riparo tries to be genuinely useful — and where getting it right does not require pretending to be a doctor.
The short version. We would rather say less and be trustworthy than say more and be believed for the wrong reasons. When it matters, Riparo’s job is to say: this needs a person — and to say it plainly.