- Register. - Invite one or more Caregivers: On Web page, go to Contacts, Click Add Caregiver, fill out invitation, check box, and hit send. On mobile App, go to Contacts, select Caregivers, tap on the '+' sign and invite your Caregivers. - Go to Settings, then Preferences. Fill out medical and food allergies. Fill out food preferences. - Go to calendar and fill in items you may need help with - meals, transportation, babysitting, etc.
- Accept invitation and download App if on mobile device, or go to web site if on computer. - Register. Log on with password. If you are caring for more than one person, select the current Recipient. - Go To Settings, then Preferences under Profile Settings and check notifications you want. - Go to Calendar and/or to My Activity/ All Calendar Tasks and confirm to accept Tasks for your Care Recipient. - If you want to offer a meal yourself, go to Calendar/Meals Offered by Caregiver.
- Click on the Shopping List button on the top of the screen. - This will take you to the Shoppnig List screen. - Write in the items you need. When a caregiver looks at the list, he will check off what he is bringing to you. - When you receive the item, you delete the item from the list.
- Click on Messages button at the top of the screen. - This will take you to the messages Inbox screen. - Click on Compose button. Add the name of the Caregiver you want to send a message to. - Write your message. Select send.
- A journal is a message that is visible to the entire caregiving group. - The Caregivers can check in to the CGA site to check up on you but cannot write in the journal. - To write in the journal, click on the Journal button at the top of the screen. - This will take you to the Journal page where you can write and edit your entries.
- Go to the Preferences Page. - You will be asked if you want to create a Medication calendar. - If you answer yes then you will be asked to enter medication names, dosages, and times. - You will be asked if you want medication reminders. - The Medication calendar is visible only to you, the Administrator (if you have one) and Group Supervisor (if you have one).
- Go to the Contacts page by clicking on Contacts button on top of screen. - Enter the person's name and email address manually or add them from address book, and the App will send an invitation.
- Go to the Contacts page by clicking on Contacts button on top of screen. - go to the list of Caregivers. - select the name of the Caregiver you wish to delete and push delete. - Automatically an alert will be sent to the Caregiver telling him his help will no longer be needed. Thank you for helping me. - I no longer need your help. Sincerely, (fill in with Care Recipient's name).
- The Calendar button at the bottom of each screen will take you to any task calendar or to the Calendar Setup screen if you wish to name a new calendar. - Go to the task calendar you want (meals, visitation, medications, transportation, child care, etc.) Select the time and date you would like that task done. - It will automatically show up on the color coded Master Calendar on the Home page.
- Go to either the Master Calendar or to the specific task calendar. - Select the task you wish to cancel and select delete. - If a caregiver had signed up to help you with that task an alert with be sent to that Caregiver saying that the task was cancelled. - Thank you, but I no longer need your help for the following task. - If no one had signed up to help with that task it will be removed from the calendar with no alerts sent.
- Caregivers are friends or family members who wish to help you with specific tasks. - They can see your Master Calendar and sign up to help. - They can write on the message board. - They can not change the Care Recipient's schedule. - They cannot see the medication list.
- An Administrator is someone designated by you who can write on the journal, shopping list, fill in task calendars and manage medications as if he were you. - There can be at most one Administrator per Care Recipient.
- A Group Supervisor is a person assigned to monitor your care. - The Group Supervisor has the same privileges as an Administrator. - He can write on the journal, shopping list, fill in task calendars and manage medications as if he were you. - There can be at most one Group Supervisor per Care Recipient.
- Go to Contacts Page and either select Invitation or Custom Invitation. - Under Invitation the invitation is pre written. - Under Custom invitation you may write your own invitation.
- Click on Shopping List button. - This will take you to the Shopping List screen. - Care Recipient enters needed items on his Shopping List. - The items are visible to Caregivers on the Shopping List screen. - The Caregiver checks off items he will bring to the Care Recipient. - These items are marked as committed on the Shopping List so that other Caregivers don't bring the same items. - When the item is delivered, the Care Recipient removes it from the Shopping List.
- Caregiver information such as picture, address, phone will show up in Contacts only if the Caregiver answers 'Yes' on the Preferences page to the question, 'Do you want to share your personal information with the group?'. - You can always go back to the Preferences screen and change your answer to the question.
- A Caregiver's commitments are listed on the My Activities Page. - Caregiver may see a list of commitments on the various task calendars Or see them on the Master Calendar Or on the individual calendars on the Calendar Page.
- Go to Calendar screen (master or specific) and uncheck the committed task. - This will uncommit the task on the Care Recipient Calendar and send an alert to the Care Recipient. - Or Caregiver can go to My Activities screen and delete the committed task from there. - This will uncommit the task on the Patient Calendar and send an alert to the Care Recipient.
- Click on Messages button at top of page, which will take you to your messages Inbox screen. - You may read messages here. To compose a message, click on the Compose button at the bottom of the page, which will take you to the Compose Message screen. - There, enter address of recipient, compose message, hit Send button. - Messages may be sent to the Patient or to other Caregivers in the group. - Messages will arrive in the Inbox screen.
- Click on Journal button, which will take you to the Journal page. - Only the Patient or an Administrator/Supervisor can write in the Journal. - Caregivers may read the Journal by going to the View Journal screen which is updated each time a new entry is written.
- CGA in an interactive calendar app. - The Care Recipient makes entries on his calendars, and the entries show up on the Caregiver's calendar. - The Caregiver selects tasks he would like to do by clicking on the tasks. - These in turn show on the Care Recipient's calendar as committed tasks, so the Care Recipient knows they will be taken care of. - The Care Recipient can cancel tasks, and the Caregiver can see that on his own calendar and will also automatically be sent an alert if he had previously committed to that task. - The Caregiver can uncommit to a previously committed task, and the Care Recipient can see that and will also automatically be sent an alert.
- Caregivers are friends or family members who wish to help you with specific tasks. - They can see your Master Calendar and sign up to help. - They can write on the message board. - They can not change the Care Recipient's schedule. - They cannot see the medication list.
- An Administrator is someone designated by you who can write on the journal, shopping list, fill in task calendars and manage medications as if he were you. - There can be at most one Administrator per Care Recipient
- A Group Supervisor is a person assigned to monitor your care. - The Group Supervisor has the same privileges as an Administrator. - He can write on the journal, shopping list, fill in task calendars and manage medications as if he were you. - There can be at most one Group Supervisor per Care Recipient.
