When you hire a caregiver to comes to your home or your loved one’s, there are lots of new routines and instructions to learn and follow. Help familiarize them with you or your loved one’s everyday care needs on their first day by providing them with a detailed caregiver schedule.
A good daily schedule will take the caregiver’s shift(s) into account — whether they work three hours or 12 hours, daily or weekly, or even overnight. The schedule may include things like when your loved one wakes up, any preferred resting, nap or mealtimes or even favorite television shows to help keep everything moving smoothly.
Another crucial thing to include on your daily schedule is a medication prompting section, which describes everything your caregiver needs to know about the person’s medication needs. Keep in mind that most caregivers will only be able to prompt you or your loved one to take medications and not actually administer them.
When your schedule is complete, make sure to include it in your adult and senior care contract.
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Sample daily schedule
We’ve put together a sample daily schedule (and printable templates) for your convenience. Here’s what to do next:
- Click to download this caregiver schedule templates below as a PDF.
- Print the PDF below and fill out your loved one’s schedule.
- Go over the rules with your caregiver and discuss questions.
- Create an adult and senior care contract.
- Sign up for a payroll account to make handling payment and taxes easier.
Sample caregiver daily schedule
(Click to download this caregiver daily schedule template as a PDF.)
Sample medication prompting schedule for caregivers
(Click to download this caregiver medication prompting template as a PDF.)
Want these templates and more? You can also download a free sample Adult and Senior Care Contract.
