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Caring for Parents Back Home

Caring for ageing parents in the Caribbean from abroad, organised: the people on the ground, doctors and medicines, carers and neighbours, bills and money, visits home and plans for what comes next.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Caring for Parents Back Home, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🌴 Caribbean Life & Diaspora

Caring for Parents Back Home

Caring for ageing parents in the Caribbean from abroad: health arrangements, carers and neighbours, money, visits and planning for what comes next.

  1. Care snapshot for each parent back home
  2. Contact list of the people around your parents
  3. First care conversation with your parents
  4. Siblings' care meeting across time zones
  5. Permission to speak with your parents' doctors
  6. Scanned folder of your parents' key documents
  7. Medicine list and repeat prescription set-up
  8. Emergency plan for a sudden illness or fall
  9. Home safety walk-through by video call
  10. Phone and video set-up for staying in touch
  11. Weekly call with your parents
  12. Neighbour check-in rota
  13. Family care group chat with ground rules
  14. Monthly care budget for your parents' household
  15. Paying light, water and phone bills back home
  16. Medicine refill and supply routine
  17. Clinic appointment calendar and transport
  18. Grocery, gas and supplies standing arrangement
  19. Monthly change log of how your parents are doing
  20. Quarterly care review with siblings
  21. How the health system works back home
  22. Questions to ask about diabetes, pressure and stroke
  23. Noticing memory changes from a distance
  24. Protecting your parents from scams and financial abuse
  25. Respecting independence while offering help
  26. Older persons' rights and services back home
  27. Looking after yourself as a long-distance carer
  28. Hiring a home carer or companion
  29. Written agreement and pay for the home carer
  30. Comparing care homes and senior residences
  31. Grab rails, ramps and a downstairs bedroom
  32. Choosing a personal alarm or SOS phone
  33. Reviewing your parents' health cover
  34. Bank access and power of attorney arrangements
  35. Pension and life certificate paperwork for parents
  36. Stay home, come abroad or move back decision
  37. Working visit home to sort out care
  38. Accompanying a parent through surgery
  39. Hospital discharge plan after an admission
  40. Cover plan when the local caregiver is away
  41. When one parent is caring for the other
  42. First year for a parent living alone after a loss
  43. Caring as an only child abroad
  44. Caring for parents while working shifts abroad
  45. When a parent refuses help
  46. Sharing care when siblings disagree
  47. Planning care for a parent with dementia
  48. Advance care planning and end-of-life wishes
  49. Palliative and hospice care at home
  50. Ten-year care funding plan

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Care snapshot for each parent back home

Before anything can be planned from abroad, everyone in the family needs the same picture of how Mummy and Daddy are really managing. One page per parent, covering health conditions, mobility, memory, who lives with or near them, the state of the house and the money coming in, turns scattered phone impressions into something you and your siblings can plan from.

First tasks

  • Write down everything you know about each parent's health and routine in one sitting
  • Phone each parent and ask how the past month has really gone
  • Ask the agent to turn your notes into a one-page snapshot per parent
  • Mark every gap where nobody in the family knows the answer
  • Refresh the snapshot with the changes from the past year @recurring(yearly)

Contact list of the people around your parents

When a parent does not answer the phone for a day, the first question is who can walk over and knock. Collecting the numbers of the neighbour, the church sister, the doctor, the pharmacist, the taxi driver they trust and the nearest relative means the right person can be reached in minutes from another time zone.

First tasks

  • Ask your parents who they would call first if they felt unwell at night
  • Collect numbers for the neighbour, pastor or pundit, doctor and pharmacist
  • Ring each contact to introduce yourself and ask permission to call them
  • Print the list in large type for your parents' phone table
  • Call through the list to confirm every number still works @recurring(quarterly)

First care conversation with your parents

Many Caribbean parents would rather say they are alright and tell you not to fuss than admit the front steps are getting hard. A planned, unhurried conversation about what they want, where they want to live and what help they would accept puts their wishes at the centre before the family starts making arrangements for them.

First tasks

  • Write four open questions about how your parents want the next few years to go
  • Book an unhurried video call when nobody has to rush off to work
  • Write down their answers in their own words straight after the call
  • Read the notes back to your parents to check you heard them right

Make it yours.

Install Caring for Parents Back Home, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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