Manage Your Family Care Team

By Bob Brueckman, Owner

BrightStar Care

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Manage Your Family Care Team

Having trouble managing mom and dad's needs or care? Trying to work out schedules with your sisters, brothers and grand kids to pitch in? Do you find it difficult to keep everyone in the family updated as to your loved one's needs? Wouldn't it be nice if there was a web-based community (similar to Facebook) that offers family caregivers and friends the ability to connect with each other and share vital information?

Well now you can create your own community online to communicate and manage such things as schedules, medical needs, messaging/updates and upcoming tasks as a means to ensure your family member has the support they need.

There are several tools out there on the web that provide benefits around coordination of care. One in particular does more than most, is extremely easy to use and is free to those that want to use it. The site is called Care-Together.com.

All of us have busy lives and helping our mom and dad or loved one requires coordination. Utilizing a tool such as Care-Together can make things easier and more efficient. It allows you, your family and friends to create a care team. By staying up to date and working together your loved one will benefit and everyone will feel like they are involved. It is very difficult for those that live out of town to stay in the loop. By using this site they can feel like they are there and part of their loved one's care team even though they may live hundreds of miles away.

Families can create and view a calendar by month, week or day which makes it easier to coordinate schedules for things like doctor appointments, specific events or times when extra care is needed. Tasks can be created that allow people to sign up or volunteer if they are available to take care of that event or responsibility. Care-Together provides families with the ability to provide updates to those you have invited to your page.

Being there for our loved ones when they need us is one of the most important things we do in life. There are now tools out there for you to use to manage their needs and do it across a care team. The care team can also include outsiders such a home care scheduling, physical therapy, etc. You will be surprised by the benefits you and your family receive.