Caring Village

Great site to share care plan, documents, contacts, calendar and more. It’s perfect for us 5 siblings to coordinate care for our dad. Biggest issue is “friends” and “inner circle” can see almost everything. I was going to upload my dad’s medical cards, Medicare Card, etc, but realized friends and inner circle can see them as well. I find this very intrusive. There’s absolutely no need for anyone else to see private documents. Therefore, the cousins we invited had to be cancelled or revoked. My advice to the developers is to allow the administrators to pick and choose categories for each group type to see. For example, friends can only read Wellness Journal, and inner circle can see that plus a couple other categories such as meds, calendar, messages. Until this happens, we’re just keeping this between the siblings.

I briefly tried out to other apps and this one seems to be more intuitive and easier to use than others. Two complaints I have right now are – if someone makes a typo in their group message and doesn’t see it till later there doesn’t appear to be a way to edit or delete that message. This ability would make Messages more efficient. Second complaint is – there are no sounds or notifications coming through on my iPhone so I’m not aware that someone has made an entry or left a message until I go check manually.

Love this app so far - from a developer perspective, it makes great use of hot alerts and is super clean and easy to read. Only complaint is that after a save, the page doesn't reload with the new info and if you try to navigate to another page after the save, the app crashes. Small bugs that can be fixed quickly though.

I have been using this app for about a month now with my grandma, for whom I’m providing care. It has a ton of great features and allows you to communicate with a team effortlessly. This app is a total lifesaver!

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This is a great app for the whole family to help my grandpa. I wish it kept pending volunteer requests on the dashboard and while you can have repeating events you can’t have more than one person sign up. For example, we have a recurring event to take him to the store. It would be great to be given the option to claim one or all recurring events. It would be really helpful to have the ability to print the calendar for the elderly family member.