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Managing an elderly parent's medicines, visits and reports.
A well-organised health record with a decade of history is a useful thing. A record that also documents your explicit wishes for what should happen if you cannot speak for yourself is a fundamentally more useful…
A parent with dementia loses, incrementally, the ability to be the source of truth for their own health. The record has to shift — from being maintained by them, to being maintained for them. The medicines list,…
An elderly parent's health record is qualitatively different from a working-age adult's. There are more chronic conditions, more specialists, more medicines, more possible interactions, and more moments when the…
A hospital portal that includes a messaging feature — where you can send a follow-up question to the treating doctor — is a real convenience when it works. It is also a channel that fails silently, and turns into a…
Managing an elderly parent's care from Dubai or Toronto is a coordination problem before it is a medical one. The parent has appointments the child does not attend, prescriptions the child does not read, and hospital…
A phone that pings quietly at 9am is a reminder if you can hear it and remember what it was for. For an elderly parent — often on hearing aids, often on more medicines than they can list from memory, often not…