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Family caregiving plan builder (free, no login)

A good family caregiving plan answers four questions: how often you'll check in, who gets alerted if something's wrong, which sibling owns which task, and how the family stays updated. Use this free builder to generate a printable plan in two minutes — no account needed.

AloneAssist is a family dashboard and care circle for an aging parent's wellbeing — daily check-ins, per-person SMS alerts, and a weekly family summary that keep siblings in the loop.

Where does your parent live?

This sets how often a daily check-in makes sense.

Who lives closest to them?

The nearest person is usually first to be alerted.

What worries you most right now?

This shapes which alerts you turn on first.

How many family members will share the caring?

Your care circle can hold up to five people.

Your plan

Your family caregiving plan

1. Check-in cadence

A daily check-in. Your parent lives independently, so once a day catches a problem early without feeling like surveillance.

2. Who gets alerted, and when

  • If a daily check-in is missed, alert the nearest person first by SMS, then the wider care circle if there's no response within a few hours.
  • You're closest, so the first alert routes to you by SMS; the rest of the care circle is notified right behind you.
  • Give each family member their own SMS alert rule on the family dashboard, so the right person hears about the right thing first instead of one person triaging every notification.

3. Who owns which task

You (nearest)
In-person check-ins, the daily 'is Mom okay?', and pickups or visits.
Other sibling
Bills, scheduling, the weekly check-in call, and reviewing the weekly family summary together.

4. Weekly family summary template

Send these four prompts to the care circle once a week.

  1. How did the daily check-ins go this week? (days answered / days missed)
  2. Anything notable in mood, appetite, sleep, or energy?
  3. Appointments, medications, or bills handled — and what's still open?
  4. Who's covering the coming week, and does anything need to shift?

The plan stays on screen for free — printing never requires an account.

Example plan

Your family caregiving plan

1. Check-in cadence

A daily check-in. Your parent lives independently, so once a day catches a problem early without feeling like surveillance.

2. Who gets alerted, and when

  • If a daily check-in is missed, alert the nearest person first by SMS, then the wider care circle if there's no response within a few hours.
  • You're closest, so the first alert routes to you by SMS; the rest of the care circle is notified right behind you.
  • Give each family member their own SMS alert rule on the family dashboard, so the right person hears about the right thing first instead of one person triaging every notification.

3. Who owns which task

You (nearest)
In-person check-ins, the daily 'is Mom okay?', and pickups or visits.
Other sibling
Bills, scheduling, the weekly check-in call, and reviewing the weekly family summary together.

4. Weekly family summary template

Send these four prompts to the care circle once a week.

  1. How did the daily check-ins go this week? (days answered / days missed)
  2. Anything notable in mood, appetite, sleep, or energy?
  3. Appointments, medications, or bills handled — and what's still open?
  4. Who's covering the coming week, and does anything need to shift?

Family caregiving plan: FAQ

Stop running the plan on paper. AloneAssist runs the daily check-in, per-person alerts, and weekly summary on one family dashboard.

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What a caregiving plan should cover

A family caregiving plan covers four things: a check-in cadence (how often you’ll confirm your parent is okay), who-gets-alerted rules (which family member hears about what first), a task split so each sibling owns specific work, and a weekly family summary so everyone sees the same picture. Naming all four up front is what turns a vague “we should keep an eye on Mom” into a plan the family can actually run. For the day-to-day check-in itself, see how to check on an aging parent living alone.

How to share it with your family

Print the plan or save it as a PDF and send it to your care circle, then put it on a shared family dashboard so every sibling sees the same task split, alert rules, and weekly summary. Making the work visible is what ends the “I didn’t know” imbalance — there’s a full framework for that in sharing caregiving with siblings.

Turning the plan into a daily routine

A plan on paper drifts; a plan on a dashboard runs itself. Move the cadence, the per-person SMS alert rules, and the weekly family summary onto a care circle so the daily check-in happens automatically and the right person is pinged for the right thing. That’s exactly what AloneAssist’s family dashboard does — the plan you just built, running on its own.