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Family Care Starter Pack
Simple pages for medication, appointments, handovers and the practical load of serious illness.
A genuinely useful starting point for partners and family members who have suddenly become the person organising everything. Designed to reduce what you have to hold in your head.
What’s inside
- Start in 10 minutes: the three pages to get usable first
- Care Snapshot: everything important on one page for a quick handover
- Medicines & Supplements: one current, factual list
- Nutrition & Hydration Support: what is helping, and what they can manage right now
- Medicine & Supplement Changes: a factual log of changes the team has made
- Key Contacts: including an out-of-hours plan
- Appointment Planner: arrive with the key facts, leave with clear next steps
- Questions for the Clinical Team
- 72-Hour Observation Grid: a simple record of what you noticed
- Hospital / Admission Handover: one sheet for when you need to explain quickly
- This Week at a Glance
- Document Index: know what exists and where it is kept
- If someone else needs to step in: a one-page handover
Print it or fill it in, whatever feels easiest today.
Every Keep It Together Care (KITC) free pack can be printed and completed by hand, or downloaded and typed into on a supported phone, tablet or computer.
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