Mighty Health Created a Wellness App With Older Adults Top of Mind

Mighty Health has designed a nutrition and fitness wellness application customized for older adults who might have hip aches or joint difficulties, reports TechCrunch . The startup announced that it raised $2.8 million in capital by investors that include Y Combinator, NextView Ventures, RRE Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, and Soma Capital. The Mighty Health app concentrates on live coaching; content focused on nutrition, preventative checkups, and workouts; and celebrations that let family members tune into their loved ones' accomplishments. Each day, a user logs in to the app and receives a list of three to five tasks to complete, distributed among nutrition, exercise, and workouts. The workouts are pre-recorded videos with trainers focused on the over-50 demographic. The app also couples users with a nutrition coach to help them inculcate healthy habits around diet and lifestyle, with coaching performed through text message. When it comes to nutrition, "we focus on the ingredient level," said Mighty Health CEO James Li. "We send them ingredients that they can piece together however they like at home in the way that they cook their cultural meals."