We have sat in living rooms across Detroit. A daughter who cut her hours to be there in the mornings. A son sleeping on the couch so his father is not alone overnight. Every family said a version of the same thing to us. I was going to do this anyway.
We knew that Michigan had a program that will pay a family member for that care, but most families had never heard of it. The ones who had either didn't want to try because of how daunting it seemed or were weeks into an application that moves between four different people. No clue where they were in the process. Months of delay. Almost none of that time was care.
Cova exists to pay the person already there and to carry the bureaucracy for them. If we do that well, a caregiver gets a paycheck for what they were going to do out of love regardless, and someone gets to grow old in their own house. That is our duty.
Ansh Tandon & Jordan IbeCo-founders, Cova
