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The Home Instead Senior Care® network's Senior Emergency KitSM can help ensure that family caregivers like you have fast and easy access to important information about loved ones in case of an emergency call.
Me & My Caregivers is a personalized, customized caregiver's toolkit to record and organize important information. It provides a secure one-stop location easily accessed and managed by those involved in your elderly loved one's care including family, friends and health care providers. By using a central communications hub, caregivers can eliminate time-wasting administrative tasks and spend more time providing quality care.
Dr. Amy D'Aprix discusses being prepared with your senior loved one's medical information should a medical emergency arise. Details include tips on being prepared using Home Instead's Senior Emergency Kit, dealing with your emotions in a medical crisis, and preparing for your loved one's return home following a medical event.
If you are helping take care of an elderly relative, you will undoubtedly face new challenges as your loved one ages. The Elder 411 app will arm you with expert information to best manage your loved one's care. In the event of a medical emergency, you'll want the Elder 911 app immediately at your fingertips to know what to anticipate, what to do and how to react.
iBiomed is a health social network and organizer for anyone or any caregiver managing a multi-symptom health condition. The mobile or web-based application arms users with easy, efficient, portable and reliable record keeping tools to simplify health management and facilitate communication with health care providers or other people like you.
Tell My Geo provides a perfect solution for family caregivers to keep track of their aging parents with Alzheimer's disease or dementia, while still allowing those loved ones to maintain their independence. The app creates a tether between two phones so adult children can monitor the location of their parents, and so their parents can easily call for help or find their way home if they've become confused or lost.
Whether you or someone you care keep for forget to take your medication, you're struggling to order your medication refills on time, or you need to monitor medicines for multiple family members, the Personal Caregiver app can help keep track of all those things, as well as manage medication reminders, so you never have to miss a dose or refill again.
Talking with your health care worker about your family health history can help you stay healthy! Use My Family Health Portrait to record pertinent health information about each of your relatives and generate a chart of health records or a family tree diagram. Organizing your information will help you or your doctor better visualize and assess potential health risks based on genetics and family history.
With the CARE Medical History Bracelet, your complete personal health history will always be within arm's reach. In the form of a USB flash drive compatible with any computer, the wristband makes essential medical information readily available to medical staff in the event of an emergency. Simply use the wristband's preloaded software to enter or update your health data on a computer and then download that data to the band.
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