The Caregiver's Organizer: an Undated Medical Binder for Aging Parent: Medicines, Appointments, Daily Routine - and What Was Actually Said at Every Visit

The other binders record the patient. This one records the person. Most caregiver organizers are forms about a patient - conditions, medicines, doctors. Useful, and then they stop. Two things are missing, and both are what families actually lose: what was said at the appointment, and who the person is. This is a 114-page undated record book at 8.5 by 11 inches, in twelve sections. It is built to be handed to somebody else - a respite caregiver, a ward nurse, a sibling who has flown in - and understood without you in the room. What's inside - Six visit records -- a facing pair for each appointment: what you went in for, what was said, what changed, what to ask next time. Written in the room, not that evening - Medicines, copied from the container -- current, stopped and changed, plus everything over-the-counter that nobody mentions, each entry with the date you copied it - The person -- what they did for a living, what calms them, how they take their tea, what nobody should say. The page every new caregiver asks for - What is normal for them -- the baseline page, which is the most useful thing you can hand a hospital - Dated observations -- what you saw and when, not what you concluded, because dates are what a doctor can use - The bag by the door -- and the list of things that are very hard to get once you have left the ward - A section for the caregiver -- what you are actually doing in a week, and the page to hand to whoever says let me know if I can help >A record book, not medical advice, and not a medical record. The doctor, the pharmacy and the hospital hold the authoritative record. Check every medicine against the container in your hand.