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Support the person you love — without carrying it all alone.

OUR MISSIONPractical support for people who care — stay organized, informed, and ready for everyday needs.

Plain-English tools for daily care, doctor visits, important papers, family roles, paying for care, and finding help. CaregiverReady organizes and helps you prepare questions — it does not give medical advice. Medicines, symptoms, and treatment questions always go to the doctor, nurse, or pharmacist.

Group Sessions — learn it together

Small, friendly groups: new to caregiving, caring from a distance, caring for a parent with memory loss, and caregivers who work. Join one or propose your own.

Want the whole care picture in one place?

Paid adds This Week's Care Plan, a Medicine List you copy from the labels, Care Notes & Timeline, a printable Care Binder Report, a Family Update Message, and the AI Specialist by voice.

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Safety first

CaregiverReady organizes and helps you prepare questions. It does not diagnose, treat, or change medicines. For medical questions, call the doctor, nurse line, or pharmacist. In an emergency, call 911. If you are in crisis or worn down to the edge, call or text 988.

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THIS PAGEAll of CaregiverReady at a glance, organized by topic.

Everything in CaregiverReady on one page. Look for it yourself, or ask the AI Specialist where to find it.

Free tools you can use today

THIS PAGEGet organized, get the papers in order, and take care of you, too.

No email, no sign-up. Everything is on this one page, in three boards: organize, papers and paying, then care for you. Tap a board name to jump to it.

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① Organize② Papers & Paying③ Care for You

① Organize

Daily Care & Contacts

A daily and weekly checklist you can print and post, plus one sheet with every appointment, doctor, pharmacy, and phone number.

Doctor Visits & Emergencies

Questions to bring to six kinds of visits, an emergency info sheet for the fridge, and a checklist for coming home from the hospital.

Group Sessions — learn it together

Small, friendly groups: new to caregiving, caring from a distance, caring for a parent with memory loss, and caregivers who work. Join one or propose your own.

② Papers & Paying

Papers & Family Roles

The legal and medical papers to have in place before you need them — with free state forms — and a way to split the work so no one person carries it all.

Paying for Care

What Medicare does and does not cover, Medicaid, VA Aid & Attendance, and the free places to ask — before anyone pays a "qualify" service.

③ Care for You

Help & Respite

Free national helplines and local programs that give you a break — and a private check-in on how you are holding up.

Working While Caregiving

Family leave, state paid leave, and how to talk to your employer — so you can keep your job and still be there.

Group Sessions — learn it together

Talk with people who are doing the same thing you are. Join one or propose your own.

Safety first

CaregiverReady organizes and helps you prepare questions. It does not give medical advice. If someone is in danger, call 911. If you are in crisis, call or text 988. If you suspect an older or disabled adult is being abused, neglected, or taken advantage of, contact Adult Protective Services through the Eldercare Locator at 1-800-677-1116.

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Shop Smart

THIS PAGEBuy only what you need, at the best price we can find.

Pill organizers, grab bars, shower chairs, medical alert devices, and meal delivery — we research it so you buy it right, and tell you first when help may be free through Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, or your local Area Agency on Aging. Free for everyone.

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Two ways to shop

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We do the shopping research for you

Before you spend a dollar, we answer four questions: Is it already free or covered? What should you look for? How do the options compare? And where is the lowest total from our partners, after codes and shipping?

Shop by aisle

Tap an aisle: what you really need, what to look for, what to skip, and three picks.

More ways to shop smart

Try it now

Tap one to see exactly how your results will look.

Our promise

Shop Smart is research, done for you. We never list Medicare insurance brokers, paid services that promise to "qualify" you for Medicaid or VA benefits, or anything that gives medical advice. We tell you first when help may be free — through Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, or your local Area Agency on Aging (call the Eldercare Locator at 1-800-677-1116).

We only send you to our business partners, because a real business relationship is how we know a store is a safe place to buy. When a partner has a code, we show it. When there is no code, we say so.

We have a business relationship with these stores and researched the options.

Prices, codes, and shipping come from our partners and are checked daily. Partners can change a price or end a code at any time, so the store's own checkout always has the final word.

Group Sessions — learn it together

Small, friendly groups: new to caregiving, caring from a distance, caring for a parent with memory loss, and caregivers who work. Join one or propose your own.

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The whole care picture — kept together

THIS PAGESet it up once, and every visit, handoff, and family update gets easier.

Everything is on this one page, in three boards: the care plan, records and binder, then family and help. Tap a board name to jump to it.

Set up once. CaregiverReady keeps it together.

Plan the week and who does what. Copy the medicines from the labels once. Jot notes as things happen — then print one Care Binder Report for any doctor visit.

① Care Plan② Records & Binder③ Family & Help

① Care Plan

The Week & the Medicines

Every task, who is doing it, and what day — grouped by day, with anything unassigned marked NEEDS SOMEONE. Plus one Medicine List copied straight from the labels.

Group Sessions — learn it together

Small, friendly groups: new to caregiving, caring from a distance, caring for a parent with memory loss, and caregivers who work. Join one or propose your own.

② Records & Binder

Notes, Timeline & the Binder

Write down visits, calls, and changes you notice as they happen. The Care Binder Report pulls the medicines, the last eight notes, the week's plan, and your questions into one printable page.

③ Family & Help

One Update & a Real Voice

Write one weekly update the whole family gets — no more repeating it on six phone calls. Talk it through with the AI Specialist by voice.

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