Vietnam is aging faster than its care system is growing. Most chronic disease is still discovered late — after years of silent, measurable drift that nobody was watching.
Of older Vietnamese live with 3 or more conditions; non-communicable diseases are ~95% of their disease burden (Ministry of Health)
Of home-care need is covered by formal services today — families carry the rest
Of older adults live alone, with an elderly spouse only, or with young grandchildren
Of fraud victims in Ho Chi Minh City are seniors (city police, reported 2025) — An's family alerts include scam warnings
National direction agrees with the mission: Vietnam's health strategy is shifting from treatment to prevention, with nationwide health records targeted by 2030. An is built to be the family-level layer of that shift.
In Vietnam, care for parents is not a market niche — it is a core cultural duty. Adult children already fund their parents' healthcare; migrants and the overseas diaspora send roughly $16 billion home each year. As co-residence declines, that duty increasingly happens at a distance — and distance is exactly what An is built to close: shared visibility, early signals, and one clear report the whole family can act on.
Per 1,000 families in the pilot: check-in and measurement completion, medication-adherence change, alerts raised and confirmed, scam attempts intercepted, and check-ups booked earlier than they would have been.
A free community tier — core tracking, reminders and serious-deviation alerts — is sustained by paying families and local partners, prioritizing elderly people who live alone or on low incomes.