Sharing a parent's care with siblings: a simple care notebook
When several siblings help a parent, the problem is rarely willingness. It is that nobody is sure who said they would call the pharmacy, book the eye appointment or pick up the new card.
Agree who owns what
- One person per area: medications, appointments, money and paperwork, the house.
- Write it down, so it does not depend on remembering a phone call.
- Name a back-up for each area.
Keep one task list
- Each task has one owner and a due date.
- Overdue tasks are at the top, where they get seen.
- Mark tasks done, so nobody repeats them.
Keep one record everyone can use
- The next appointment and the questions to ask.
- The contacts, grouped by role.
- A one-page summary any sibling can hand to a doctor.
How Alderbook does it
Alderbook groups tasks by sibling with overdue items on top, keeps contacts by role (doctor first, tap to call), and holds each appointment's questions and outcome notes. The care summary is one page any of you can share as a PDF.
The web version keeps its data in one browser on one device, so one person usually keeps the record and shares the summary and task list with the others.
Price: Free for one person and 10 documents. $49.99 once for everything else.
Alderbook stores what you enter and gives it back in a useful shape. It gives no medical or legal advice, calculates nothing about medication, and does not store passwords or account logins.