Shukr — Elder Life

Add the elder, gather the family, then fill her page. Click a step in the flow panel — or tap inside the phone.

Sara
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Elder Life

Elders in my life

Add an elder once. The whole family gathers on the page you make for them.

Your elders

If the elder is on Shukr, her page attaches to the account she already owns. If she is not, the family keeps the record for her — she never has to hold a phone.
Her page

People
A page always keeps at least one admin. The last one cannot step down until someone else is promoted.
Album
Photos land in the chapter of her life they belong to, so the album reads in order even when the family adds them out of order.
1951 – 1963

Childhood

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Daadi Fatima · her albumPage 1
Childhood
Page 1 of 2
Swipe the album left or right to turn the page. Tap a photograph to read it.
What she says
Her things
Each thing says who keeps it now. That one line is what stops an heirloom from quietly disappearing between houses.
Do You Know?
Add an elder
From ShukrShe already has her own account — her page attaches to it
Add manuallyShe does not use the app — the family keeps her page for her
From Shukr
On Shukr, in your circles
F
Fatima Rukhsana
@fatima.r · your grandmother
I
Iqbal Hassan
@iqbal.h · 81
She keeps her own name and photo. You are making her a page, not an account.
Add manually

A photo helps the grandchildren find her — you can add it later

Her name
Daadi, Nani, Ammi — whatever she is called at home is the right answer.
Relation to you
Born · optional
Many elders do not know the exact date. An approximate year is fine, and it can stay empty.
Where she is from · optional
Elder

Relation
Born
Added
People on her page

Invite to her page
Family on Shukr
Invite by linkFor family who are not on Shukr yet
On her page

Role
Joined

Album
Her things

Where it is now
Added by
Do You Know?

Something she said
Her words
Record her saying itHer voice is the part the grandchildren keep
What is it about
One of her things
What is it
Why it matters
Who keeps it now
This is the line that matters most later. Update it when the thing moves house.
Tell one about her
Something you saw her do that the children have never heard. One moment, not her whole life.
Give it a name
What happened
Say it out loud insteadThe children would rather hear you than read you
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What is this?

Elder Life starts with one thing only: making the elder exist in the app, and getting the right people around her. Nothing is recorded or posted yet.

An elder is added either from Shukr — she has her own account, and her page simply attaches to it — or manually, which is the common case: she does not use a phone, so the family keeps her page for her.

Whoever adds her becomes the first admin. Admins invite the rest of the family, edit her details and promote other admins; a page can hold as many admins as the family needs, and never fewer than one.

Reused pattern · roster, choice sheet & manual form from parent-child/simulation.html · new: multi-select invite + role sheet

How it flows

Click any step — the phone jumps to that moment. Buttons and sheets inside the phone do the same.

    Now:

    Exploratory simulation for Elder Life — adding an elder and gathering her family — drafted alongside Life Chapters and elder-life-chapters-prd.md. Posting to her page is out of scope here.