Caregiving · for family caregivers and home aides looking after an aging parent or a loved one with dementia
CarePage is a daily care log for family caregivers and home aides looking after an aging parent or someone living with dementia. Six large buttons record a meal, a medication given, a bowel movement, sleep, mood or pain in one tap, with an optional note or photo. Every entry lands on a timeline with the time and the caregiver's name, and the last seven days fold into a one-page PDF to bring to the doctor. Caregivers on different shifts pass their entries to each other as a file, so there is no account and no server in between.
Open the weekly summary and the last seven days of taps are laid out on a single page: meals, medications given, bowel movements, hours of sleep, the moods recorded and the highest pain score for each day, followed by the notes you wrote. Preview it on the phone, then share it as a PDF or print it before the appointment. The doctor sees the whole week at once, not you scrolling through messages.
The Today screen is six big buttons: Meal, Meds, Bowel, Sleep, Mood and Pain. One tap records the time, and a quick follow-up choice covers how much of a meal was eaten, which medications on the list were given, a word for the mood, or a pain score from 0 to 10. Add a note or a photo only when there is something worth saying.
At the end of a shift, export your entries as one file and send it through the phone's share sheet, by text message or email. The next caregiver opens it in CarePage and the entries join their timeline, each marked with the name of the person who logged it. Nothing passes through a server, and there is no shared login to hand around.
Most families start with whatever is nearby: a spiral notebook on the kitchen counter, a whiteboard on the fridge, a notes app, or a group chat where a sister, a brother and a part-time aide post updates. Each of them works fine until someone needs an answer that spans several days.
That question usually comes in the exam room. How has she been sleeping? Is she eating? When did the knee start bothering her? The notebook is at home, the whiteboard was wiped on Tuesday, and the chat holds two hundred messages mixed with photos and pharmacy pickup times. Software made for home care agencies keeps tidier records, but it is built around staff schedules, billing and visit verification, not around a daughter and an aide sharing one parent's week.
The buttons on the Today screen are sized for a hurried thumb. After breakfast, tap Meal and pick how much was eaten. After the morning medications, tap Meds and tick them off your list. Most entries take a couple of seconds and do not pull you away from the care itself.
Sleep is two taps, asleep and awake, which is enough to show how each night went. Mood is a short word you choose, and Pain is a score from 0 to 10 with room for a note about where it hurts. A note or photo is there for the thing you would otherwise forget by evening, like a new bruise or a lunch that came back untouched.
The timeline keeps every entry in order with the caregiver's name beside it, so yesterday afternoon or last Sunday night is a scroll away instead of a phone call.
The weekly summary covers the last seven days. Each day is a column and each kind of entry is a row: meals logged, medications given out of those scheduled, bowel movements, hours between asleep and awake, the moods recorded, and the highest pain score. Under the grid come that week's notes, with the day, the time and who wrote them.
Preview the page on your phone, then share it as a PDF or print it. You can hand it to the nurse at check-in or attach it to a message before the visit. The summary reports what was recorded and nothing more. It does not score the week, label anything as normal or abnormal, or suggest what to change; that conversation belongs with the doctor.
Care rarely sits with one person. A daughter covers evenings, an aide covers weekdays, a brother takes the weekend. CarePage handles the handoff with a file. The person finishing a shift exports their entries and sends the file through the share sheet, and the person starting the next shift imports it. Those entries then appear on their timeline under the original author's name.
It is a file, not a live connection. Two phones do not update each other on their own, and nothing is combined until someone sends a file and opens it. That is the trade for having no server and no account: the log travels only when you send it, and only to the people you send it to. Set your own name in Settings once, and every entry you make carries it.
There is no login, no cloud copy and no account, so there is no password to share with an aide. Records stay on the phone that made them and on any phone you send a file to. The app does not connect to medical records, pharmacies or health devices, and it does not call or alert anyone.
Medication reminders are optional and go off at the times you enter on the medication list. CarePage does not suggest doses, timing or changes; the list is a record of what the doctor or pharmacist already told you. Scheduling, payroll and visit verification for paid staff are also outside its scope. It is a log for the people doing the caring.
CarePage is a record-keeping tool. It does not give medical advice, diagnose conditions, or recommend treatment or medication changes. Talk with the person's doctor, nurse or pharmacist about any health question, and call your local emergency number in an emergency.
No. There is no login and no account to create. Open the app, add the name of the person you care for and your own name, and start tapping.
Export your entries as a file and send it from the share sheet, by text or email. They open it in CarePage and the entries join their timeline with your name on each one. It is not a live sync; send a new file whenever there is something new to pass on.
No. CarePage is a record-keeping tool. It stores what you log and lays it out on a page; it does not interpret entries, diagnose, or advise on treatment or medication. Questions about the log belong with the person's doctor or nurse.
On the phone. Entries are saved on the device and are not uploaded to a server. To keep a copy or move to a new phone, export the log as a file and import it on the other device.
Yes. Logging, the timeline and the weekly PDF all work offline. A connection only matters if the app you use to send a file, such as email, needs one.
If you want it to. Add each medication and its times to the list in Settings and switch on reminders. CarePage does not set or change the schedule; it only uses the times you enter.
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