How to keep your own care record and share it with your children
Add yourself as the care receiver, log your medicines, readings and mood as you go, and invite your children into your care circle. They can then see your record whenever they look, instead of asking how you are on every call, and you decide what goes into it.
Keep one distinction in mind. What you record as the care receiver is shared with everyone in your circle; what you keep under Settings → My Personal Health is only visible to you. Choose the place by who should see it.
Set yourself up as the care receiver
When the app asks who you are logging for, choose Myself. If you first set the app up for someone else, go to Settings → Care Receivers → Add yourself as a care receiver, and use Switch Care Receiver to move between the two records.
Everything you then log under Today and Health goes into your care record, and anyone you invite will see it.
- Settings → Care Receivers
- Add yourself as a care receiver
- Switch Care Receiver, when you look after someone else too
Log what your children usually ask about
Under Health, Medications → Add Medication takes the name, how often and at what times, with a Medication reminder switch. Tap Record dose when you take one, and Today's Adherence shows how the day is going. Scan a prescription bag fills in a new medicine from the pharmacy bag, so check what it read before you save.
Vitals takes blood pressure, pulse, weight, temperature, blood sugar and blood oxygen, entered by hand, and Log Mood records how you feel. For anything else, the + on Today opens New Care Record, with a note and photos if you want them.
Invite your children, or just send them a link
Family → Invite Family → Create invite link, then Send via LINE. Each child signs in with a Google or Apple account and joins your circle, where they see the same care records, Handoff Board, shifts and Important Info that you do, and can add records themselves.
For a child who would rather not install anything, Family → Share Care Status makes a link they can open without an account. You choose Summary or Full, and whether it Never expires or stops on a date; Deactivate turns it off whenever you like.
What stays private: My Personal Health
Settings → My Personal Health holds YOUR own health data as the phone's owner. Readings there, whether typed with Record a reading or synced from Apple Health on iPhone or Health Connect on Android, are marked Only visible to you, and your family does not see them in the app.
On iPhone you can choose to share part of it: Share my Apple Health data to the record my family sees sends blood pressure and pulse readings to your care record. Only readings taken after you switch it on are shared, never ones you typed in, and Stop sharing ends it.
Take the record to your doctor
Before an appointment, Family → Doctor Report turns a date range into a link you can open on your phone in the consultation room: a summary of the period's medications, vitals and notable events. A report you generate on your own record can include the readings from My Personal Health as well, so send the link only to people you are happy to have see them.
The report is something for the doctor to read, not a conclusion. What the readings mean, and whether anything should change, is the doctor's call.
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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