How to use CareLogger with a live-in caregiver
Set it up as a caregiver household from the start: when the app asks who does the day-to-day care, choose A live-in caregiver, pick the language she reads best, and hand the invite to her own phone. She then records from a simple Tap once to record screen, and her notes reach the family translated into each reader's app language.
The family does the setting up and the caregiver does the recording. Everything she logs lands on the same timeline and Handoff Board the family sees, so nobody has to ask on LINE whether lunch was eaten or the afternoon tablet was taken.
Choose the caregiver path when you set up
The first time you open the app as the family member who organises care, it asks Who does the day-to-day care? Choose A live-in caregiver. The next screen asks Which language does the caregiver read best?, and once she joins, the app tries to show itself in that language.
The app's screens come in Bahasa Indonesia, Tiếng Việt, Tagalog and English, among other languages. There is no Thai version yet, so a Thai-speaking caregiver would use the English or Chinese screens for now.
- Who does the day-to-day care? → A live-in caregiver
- Which language does the caregiver read best? → her language
- Hand it to the caregiver → Create the caregiver invite
Hand the invite to her phone
On Hand it to the caregiver, tap Create the caregiver invite. She can scan the code with her phone, you can send it with Send via LINE, or you can read the invite code aloud while she types it. She signs in with a Google or Apple account, so check she has one before her first day.
If you finished setting up before she arrived, use Family → Invite Family → Create invite link instead. That invite does not carry her language, so once she has joined, open Settings → Language on her phone and choose it there. An invite link works once and expires, so make a new one if it was not used in time.
What her day looks like in the app
After she joins she lands on Tap once to record: the tasks you set up, one tap each. Full app opens everything else when she needs it. A record can carry a note and Photos (optional), which is often easier than describing a meal or a rash in a second language.
Category and task names appear exactly as you typed them; the app does not translate them. Keep them short, and consider writing her word next to yours, such as "Medicine / Obat", so the button means the same thing to both of you.
Reminders live on the phone that set them. If she should be reminded about the afternoon medicine, set it up on her phone under Settings → Reminders, not on yours.
Read the handoff instead of chasing her on chat
At the end of her day she opens Care → Handoff and taps Write Handoff Note: a Summary, anything that Needs Attention, and what is still Pending / To-do. Submit Handoff sends it and the other members get a notification. For a message in the middle of the day, Quick Note posts one without ending anything.
Handoff notes, record notes and comments are translated into each reader's app language, so you read hers in Chinese and she reads your reply in her own. A comment also keeps the original underneath, in grey, when you want to see exactly what she wrote.
Under Family → Family Members, family can keep the Evening care summary switched on: on days the caregiver logs, it sends one summary that evening.
Keep what she needs one tap away
Fill in Family → Important Info before her first day: Emergency & Contacts with numbers she can tap to call, the Primary Doctor and the Preferred Hospital, and allergies and conditions under Medical Information. She sees the same folder you do.
Agree with her which questions come to the family straight away. A change in a medicine, a new symptom or a fall goes to the family and the doctor, not into a note to be read later: the app keeps the record, it does not decide what to do about it.
CareLogger is an app for keeping and sharing care records. It is not a medical device: it does not diagnose, treat or replace professional advice. Take clinical questions to the doctor, pharmacist or care team, and in an emergency call your local emergency number first.
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