Vietnam is aging faster than its care system is growing. Most chronic disease is still discovered late — after years of silent, measurable change that no one was monitoring.
Of older people in Vietnam live with three or more conditions; non-communicable diseases account for approximately 95% of their disease burden (Ministry of Health)
Of home-care need is currently met by formal services; families provide the remainder
Of older adults live alone, with an elderly spouse only, or with young grandchildren
Of older adults receive no pension — prevention must be affordable to be meaningful
National policy points in the same direction: Vietnam's health strategy is shifting from treatment toward prevention, with nationwide electronic health records targeted by 2030. An is designed as the family-level layer of that shift.
An's model is a chain, and it begins with purpose. A product that genuinely serves a community earns the partnership of the health and technology organizations whose medical data interfaces, validated models and cloud infrastructure make rigorous analysis possible. That access is what distinguishes a health product people can rely on from applications whose analysis cannot be verified — because in healthcare, insufficient accuracy and insufficient evidence mean a product cannot responsibly be used at all.
For every 1,000 pilot families: measurement and check-in completion; change in medication adherence; alerts raised and confirmed; attempted fraud intercepted; and check-ups scheduled earlier than they otherwise would have been. Pilot results will be published with their methods and uncertainty. Figures we cannot yet support, we do not print.
A free community tier — core monitoring, reminders and serious-deviation alerts — is sustained by paying families and local partners, with priority for older people who live alone or on low incomes.
In Vietnam, caring for one's parents is not a market niche; it is a core cultural responsibility. Adult children already fund their parents' healthcare, and migrants and the overseas diaspora send approximately $16 billion home each year. As co-residence declines, that responsibility is increasingly exercised across distance — precisely the gap An is built to close. Vietnam is not alone: aging is the shared condition of Japan, Korea, China and Europe. A model proven with Vietnamese families — children paying, parents monitored with their own consent, one clear report for everyone — is a model we intend to carry to families in many countries, in their own languages.