CareGrid Family care plan Family Care Plan · USD 29
Supporting Dad: four people, one week, no gaps
Who does what, when, and the three slots nobody was covering.
Four people are already helping and it is going wrong anyway, because none of you can see the whole week at once. This plan is the whole week on one page. It found three uncovered slots and two where two of you were duplicating each other, and it changes nothing about what anyone actually does.
Thursday afternoons, Sunday evenings and the Friday pharmacy run have nobody attached to them. Meanwhile Kees and Lotte are both calling on Tuesday and neither knew. Fixing both takes one conversation and no extra hours from anyone.
People
Who is doing what
| Person | Lives | Realistically available | Owns |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kees | 12 minutes away | Weekday evenings, most Saturdays | Shopping, house, anything physical |
| Lotte | One hour away | Tuesdays, alternate weekends | Appointments, paperwork, the GP relationship |
| Bram | Abroad | Calls only, any evening | Daily phone call, finances, remote admin |
| Marijke, neighbour | Next door | Weekday mornings, short notice | Morning check-in, post, emergencies |
Marijke is a neighbour doing a favour, not a carer, and the plan treats her that way: short, predictable, morning only, with no task that would matter if she were away.
The week
One page, four people
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning check | Marijke | Marijke | Marijke | Marijke | Marijke | Kees | Kees |
| Afternoon | Lotte visits | Nobody | Pharmacy? | Kees | |||
| Evening call | Bram | Kees and Lotte | Bram | Bram | Bram | Bram | Nobody |
| Shopping | Kees | ||||||
| Laundry and house | Lotte | Kees |
Red cells are the three gaps and the one duplication. Everything else is already working and has been left exactly as it is.
Fixes
Five changes, no extra hours
| Problem | Change | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday evening called twice | Kees stops calling Tuesday. Lotte is already there in person | Kees |
| Sunday evening nobody calls | Kees moves his Tuesday call to Sunday. Same effort, better placed | Kees |
| Thursday afternoon empty | Bram's call moves from evening to Thursday afternoon | Bram |
| Friday pharmacy run unowned | Lotte orders the repeat prescription for delivery instead | Lotte |
| Nobody knows what happened | One shared note per visit, three lines, in the family chat | Everyone |
Four of the five are a person moving something they already do to a different day. The only new habit is the shared note, and it is the one that stops this plan going stale in a month.
When it breaks
Absence and escalation
| Situation | First cover | Then |
|---|---|---|
| Marijke away | Kees does the morning check by phone | If more than three days, Lotte takes Wednesday off |
| Kees away | Lotte covers Saturday shopping, Bram calls daily | Online shop delivery as a fallback |
| Lotte away | Appointments move rather than transfer. Bram handles paperwork | Nothing medical is transferred to anyone else |
| School holidays | Kees has less weekday capacity. Plan a month ahead | Holiday Coverage Plan rebuilds the grid |
| Something is wrong | Whoever is there calls the GP, then the family chat | One person, Lotte, speaks to health professionals |
One person owning the GP relationship matters more than it sounds. Professionals give clearer information to a single consistent contact, and it stops three siblings receiving three slightly different versions.
Keeping it alive
The monthly fifteen minutes
- One call a month, all four, fifteen minutes
- Any slot that went uncovered twice gets reassigned
- Marijke asked directly whether it is still working for her
- Appointments for the next month added to the grid
- Anything that felt heavy said out loud
- Grid reprinted and put on Dad's fridge