A small but growing crop of financial-technology companies are offering online tools meant to help adult children manage and monitor their parents’ finances and well-being.
Among the pioneers in fintech services for older people are companies such as EverSafe, an account-monitoring tool aiming to fight financial exploitation, and True Link Financial Inc., which offers a prepaid debit card that can be customized to limit both how much money a cardholder can spend and where the cardholder can spend it.