The Digital Caregiver

Simple Technology Systems for Managing an Aging Parent's Appointments, Medicines, Documents, and Family Communication

von Jessica Hintz

392 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Some of the hardest nights in family caregiving start with a question you cannot answer: **Where is Dad's insurance card?** From there, the evening unfolds-a denial code read aloud at an airport gate, a blood thinner the pharmacy says was discontinued, a sibling texting "whatever you decide is fine" while you do the arithmetic alone.**The Digital Caregiver** is for the adult child who noticed first: daughters coordinating care across three time zones, sons providing long-distance caregiving from 400 miles away, and families trying to help an aging parent stay independent while one person quietly carries the load.This book gives you a system you can build in **90 days**, in about 14 hours of work and roughly $250 a year, using mostly free software. Its 15 chapters cover the five load-bearing pieces of eldercare logistics: a shared calendar for appointments, medication organization, a family folder and medical binder for emergencies, a password manager for medical portals, and the advance-directive and power-of-attorney paperwork that determines who can legally help.You'll also learn how to divide caregiving duties with siblings without turning the group chat into a battlefield, get doctors to listen during short telehealth visits, manage Medicare bills and insurance appeals, navigate driving and dementia conversations, coordinate paid help and care logs, and use smart-home safety sensors without turning your mother's home into a surveillance project.Five appendices provide a **90-day workbook, word-for-word scripts, a tool guide with real prices, document checklists, and instructions for shutting the system down when caregiving ends.**What you gain isn't simply productivity-it's **time**: another person who can manage the calendar while you take a weekend, and the freedom to sit with your mother without reaching for your phone.Unlike books that focus only on difficult conversations, diagnoses, or teaching technology, **The Digital Caregiver builds the operating system underneath them**. Written by someone who spent eleven years implementing hospital records systems before adapting the method for her own mother, it also addresses caregiver burnout honestly: resentment, guilt, relief, and the practical arithmetic behind sharing the load.A system can remember everything and love nothing. **Let the screens carry the logistics. You carry the presence.** Open to whatever is on fire today-and build the thing that remembers.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziale Dienste und Sozialwesen, Kriminologie Sozialwesen, Sozialpolitik und soziale Dienste Altenbetreuung
• ISBN: 9798182792776
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Jessica Hintz