An Easy-to-Use Caregiving Guide and Organizer for Family Caregivers

Available as a Kit with a CD, or as a CD only.
An innovative aid for family caregivers, Keep Tabs On Caregiving helps you organize and easily find all the important facts and information that affect your loved one’s health care and quality of life. It will also reduce your stress and frustration as it puts you in control of virtually every caregiving situation. If you are caring for a parent, spouse or other loved one, Keep Tabs On Caregiving will guide you as you provide and monitor care.

Organized into 8 Essential Subjects:

Personal information
Identification & vital statistics, emergency contacts, daily routine & schedule, personal interests & preferences, etc.

Assessment information
Individual’s appearance/abilities/environment, driving, home safety inspection.

Care alternative information
In-home, assisted living, skilled nursing home.

Medical information
Provider contacts, history, medication management, etc.

Insurance information
Types and contacts

Financial information
Bank accounts & contacts, assets, obligations, financial status worksheet, etc.

Legal information
Types of documents and contacts

Care plan information
Tips, contacts, task assignments, support organizations & resources

Caregiving Resources and Personal Information Together, in One Convenient Place

More than 80 pages of comprehensive information to guide you through the caregiving process:

• Caregiving tips throughout provide valuable suggestions, such as how to assess your loved one's
  driving or the safety of continuing to live alone, how to develop a care plan and share tasks among
  family members. 
• Charts help you monitor medications and keep information up to date.  
• Checklists of helpful questions remind you what to ask when visiting doctors and when choosing
  in-home care, assisted living, or nursing homes.  
• Forms prompt you to record and update personal information such as family and professional
  contacts; daily routine; medical history; legal, financial, and insurance data.  
• Many other resources provide valuable information such as how to contact support organizations.


Reduce Stress and Frustration
When faced with making a health care decision or a crisis occurs, we have little guidance and feel overwhelmed searching for resources and vital personal information. Keep Tabs On Caregiving gives you a system designed to minimize such frustrations for family caregivers. It will help you gather, organize, and store the information you need to manage your caregiving responsibilities more effectively. Its unique content and design promotes improved communications to other family members and health care professionals, enhanced safety, and ultimately, higher-quality care for your loved one. Out of town caregivers will feel more at ease having local contact information handy, improving their ability to monitor their loved one’s situation.

Make Informed, Timely Caregiving Decisions
Caregiving requires you to adapt as your loved one's circumstances change and to make timely decisions based on current information. Keep Tabs On Caregiving helps you keep important information up to date and at your fingertips so you won't have to hunt for it in the middle of a crisis or unexpected event. This will help you make informed health care decisions, improving the likelihood of a better outcome. It also helps you ask the right questions to get the information you need.

• Is Dad taking all his medicines?
• Is it safe for Mom to live alone?
• What should I be asking my parent’s doctors?
• Can Mom still drive safely?

Keep Tabs On Caregiving helps you end the confusion.

Health Care Professionals Will Appreciate this Product
Keep Tabs On Caregiving helps improve adherence to doctors’ instructions, medications, and care plans from social service professionals. Using forms provided, family caregivers record their loved one’s daily routine, likes/dislikes, and favorite meals; the completed forms can be easily copied and given to in-home care providers, assisted living or skilled-care facilities, so services can be tailored to your loved one’s particular needs and desires.

customer comments

“I have enjoyed using the binder Keep Tabs On Caregiving. I use it for both my parents, age 85 and 89. I have used the chapter on medications and the charts for administration. I have also used extensively the chapter on physicians and other contacts. It is very convenient to have everything in one place. I feel comfortable knowing that if anything should happen to me, someone else could pick up this binder and keep right on going with it with very little effort or thought. Thanks for a wonderful product.”

“I think your product is excellent. It does make people think through their financial situation and truly get organized.”

“Last year my dad’s condition worsened and my mom was overwhelmed with the paperwork, doctors’ appointments and keeping track of all of his care needs. I bought the Keep Tabs On Caregiving binder and worked with my mom on organizing dad’s medical paperwork. Now my mom can easily find what she needs when she needs it. I work full time as does my mom and this is a wonderful tool for busy families to keep organized.”

KEEP TABS ON CAREGIVING KIT

Includes binder, paper pages and CD
With the kit, you can choose your preferred method to record and update your loved one's personalized information: 

• Use the CD to store, update, and print from your computer, or...
• Use the paper forms, which can be completed by hand.

The CD contains the same information as the paper forms.
 

Easy-to-Carry Binder Stores Everything in One Convenient Place

• A 3-ring section with 8 subject dividers organizes your information and suggests essential
  information to gather for each subject:
  1) Personal information; 2) Assessment information; 3) Care alternatives; 4) Medical information;
  5) Insurance information; 6) Financial information; 7) Legal information; 8) Care plan.
  
  
• An oversized pocket holds your collected brochures, pamphlets, legal papers, insurance
  documents, etc.
  
  
• A protective sleeve holds the CD.
  
  System Requirements:
  PC only
  266 MHz Intel Pentium- class processor
  Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, or Windows 98 operating system
  64 MB memory recommended with 150 MB of hard disk space
  800 x 600 or higher-resolution display with 256 colors

KEEP TABS ON CAREGIVING CD

Family caregivers that are interested only in the computer program without the paper pages or binder can purchase the CD version of Keep Tabs On Caregiving. This easy-to-use interactive software program allows you to enter personal information, update, and print forms as necessary.
After entering the prompted information on the forms, you can save the completed forms on your computer as well as view and print them in an easy to read format. Over 80 pages of comprehensive information; the forms, checklists, charts, tips, and resources included on the CD are the same as those in the kit version.

Like the kit, the CD is organized into 8 essential subjects:
1)Personal information; 2) Assessment information; 3) Care alternatives; 4) Medical information;
5) Insurance information; 6) Financial information; 7) Legal information; 8) Care plan.

System Requirements:
PC only
266 MHz Intel Pentium- class processor
Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, or Windows 98 operating system
64 MB memory recommended with 150 MB of hard disk space
800 x 600 or higher-resolution display with 256 colors