Caregiver Planner for Aging Parents: The Long Stretch
A forty-page workbook for the long-haul family caregiver. The ongoing months and years of caring for an aging parent or a partner with chronic illness. Updated medical team contacts, monthly care-team coordinator log, respite-care planning, the honest pages for anger and exhaustion, the sibling-conflict workbook, marriage and career considerations, and a "what they would want, if they could tell me" page. Companion to the 90-Days planner. Caregiver crisis lines included.
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Look inside
Pages from the file you'll download, not a mock-up.
The first 90 days were the shock. The months after are the work.
The appointments are now routine. The medical team knows your name. The medications are stable, or not. The family has a pattern, for better or for worse. The person you are caring for has needs that do not go away.
This workbook is for that stretch. It is not a manual on how to caregive. It is the structure for the version of you doing it for the long haul. The respite planning. The honest anger and exhaustion pages. The “I cannot do this forever” reckoning. The marriage and career considerations that the first-90-days planner did not have time to address.
What’s inside
Forty pages, fillable:
- A note before you start. What this workbook is.
- “You are doing real work” page. Identity validation.
- Medical team contacts. Updated as it evolves.
- Medication log by purpose. No names. Re-printable.
- Monthly care-team coordinator log. Who is doing what this month.
- Insurance + billing tracker.
- Respite-care planning. Essential for sustainability.
- The “I am angry” page.
- The “I am exhausted” page.
- The “I cannot do this forever” page.
- Sibling-conflict workbook. Four pages.
- “What they would want, if they could tell me.”
- Marriage / partnership maintenance.
- Job and career considerations.
- Your own health page.
- Financial caregiving + hospice considerations.
- Caregiver crisis lines.
- A final letter.
Format
Instant-download PDF, US Letter + A4. Personal use only.
From Soothemade Notes, a small apothecary of printables, planners, and cards for the unphotographed parts of new parenthood and the unphotographed years of caring for the people who raised us. Made slowly, in plain language.
