Anthony Awoyele
Gerontologist · Founder & Product Lead
Who built Kinse
A gerontologist who saw the gap firsthand
Anthony Awoyele founded Kinse after years studying aging and working with older adults in care settings. His grandmother's story was not unique: families want to help, but daily life gets in the way.
Kinse brings gentle phone check-ins and medication reminders to any phone, with a dashboard so caregivers can stay close without hovering.
Founder story
It started with my grandmother
My grandmother didn't live alone. There were people around her: family, a full house, people who loved her. But everyone was busy with their own lives, their own families, their own work. And so in the ways that mattered most, she was on her own. No one was tracking whether she'd taken her medications. No one knew when she'd had a hard day. The support was there in spirit, but not in practice.
That gap became personal before it became professional. I spent years studying aging, first in sociology, then in gerontology, and then working directly with older adults in care settings. The same pattern kept surfacing: the technology that existed either required expensive devices older adults did not have, or it supported the caregiver without ever truly connecting back to the person aging in place.
No one had built something that worked for both, through a phone call anyone can answer, guided by a framework that puts privacy, autonomy, and dignity first. I built Kinse to close that gap for families like mine.
Background
- B.A. in Sociology, Social Gerontology option — CSU Los Angeles
- M.S. in Gerontology — CSU Long Beach (May 2026)
- Hands-on experience with older adults in care settings
Research behind the product
From graduate research to a product families can use
Anthony's directed project at CSU Long Beach focused on accessible, ethically grounded technology for older adults aging in place and their family caregivers. Two original contributions shaped each other: a design framework and the product you see today.
The ORIGIN Framework v1.0
A 10-principle, three-domain design framework built on evidence. It organizes privacy, autonomy, and dignity as structural preconditions (the Governing Domain), centers the older adult (the Beneficiary Domain), and supports the family caregiver (the Operational Domain).
Kinse, the product
A telephone-based service delivering medication reminders and daily phone check-ins over a standard call, paired with a web platform that turns each interaction into actionable visibility for the family care circle.
Why this work matters
The numbers Anthony kept seeing in research and in care settings
53 million
Americans serve as unpaid family caregivers, up nearly 10 million in five years
NAC & AARP, 2020
95%
of adults 65+ own a basic phone, vs. 68% with home broadband, the access gap Kinse was built to close
OATS & AARP, 2025; Pew Research Center, 2024
75–77%
of adults 50+ want to age in place
Aldenhoven et al., 2025; Binette & Farago, 2024
1 in 4
community-dwelling older adults experiences social isolation
Southerland et al., 2024
82 million
adults 65+ projected in the U.S. by 2050, up from 58 million today
Mather & Scommegna, 2024
Built for trust, not surveillance
Kinse supports routine check-ins and medication reminders by phone. It is not an emergency response service, a clinician, or a diagnosis tool. In urgent situations, contact local emergency services immediately.
Call summaries and medication confirmations go only to caregivers you authorize. You control care circle permissions and what helpers can change versus view.
Help the people you love feel close, from afar
Start a free trial and see why a gerontologist built Kinse this way: a phone call for your loved one, clear summaries for you.