Caregiving
Caring for an ill, disabled or ageing family member or friend: care rotas, handovers between carers, appointments and medicines lists, choosing care services, respite, carer wellbeing and hard conversations about care.
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- Build a family care rota
Builds a shared care rota for an ill or ageing relative across family members and helpers, with a task list, weekly schedule, coverage gaps, handover notes and a fair split of the load.
- Eldercare advisor
Acts as an eldercare advisor who helps families plan care for an ageing relative, share the load between siblings, find services and protect the carer's own wellbeing.
- Evaluate care homes
Builds a checklist and questions for choosing a care home or assisted living, covering inspection reports, staffing, a visit checklist, true costs, funding to check and contract terms.
- Plan a care conversation with an ageing parent
Prepares a conversation with an ageing parent about care needs, driving or moving, respecting their autonomy, with openings, options to offer, responses to pushback and when it cannot wait.
- Prepare for a parent moving in
Plans an ageing parent moving in with the family, covering roles, money, privacy, home changes, respite and the conversation everyone needs to have first.
Not: paid clinical or care-home work (clinical-practice); raising children without extra care needs (parenting); benefit and power-of-attorney forms (paperwork).