Shared Care 12+

A shared dashboard that gives parents and carers a quick and easy way to share care information.

Set up care groups for your children or loved ones you care for. Share appointment, medicines, carer visit and regular club information between care group members.

Introduction
- Use Shared Care to set up Care Groups for each person you care for. Add Appointments, Medicines, Carer Visits and regular Club trips, and share all of that information with other carers who use the app.
- All information is stored in a central database so that it can be accessed by the carers to whom you grant access.
- Any carer with access to a Care Group can add, edit and delete information, but only the owner of the Care Group can delete the Care Group itself.
- We created this app to help myself and my wife stay afloat in the sea of information related to caring for our two daughters, one of whom has complex medical needs. I sincerely hope that it proves useful for other families and carers.

Get Started
- Start the Shared Care app and tap the Sign Up option.
- Enter your email address and a new password then tap the Sign Up button to create your account and log into the app.
- You can use the Login option next time you need to authenticate.

Create a Care Group
- Tap Add Care Group
- In Create new Care Group, enter the name of the person you are caring for and tap the Add button.
- You will see your new Care Group listed under Your Care Groups. This list shows the Care Groups that you own, i.e. you may have access to other Care Groups as well.
- You will also see the Care Group you have added on the Select Care Group screen.

Join an Existing Care Group
- Tap Add Care Group
- If another carer has already created a Care Group and wants to share care information with you, in Join existing Care Group, enter the other carer's email address and the name of the person you are both caring for, then tap the Join button.
- Note that the other carer will have to share their email address and the name of the person you are both caring for outside the app.
- You will see your request added to the Pending join requests list where it will remain until the owner of the Care Group approves the request.
- After the other carer approves your request to join the Care Group - which they will see on their Manage Members screen - you will see the name of the Care Group you have joined on the Select Care Group screen.

Using a Care Group
- Tap the name of the Care Group on the Select Care Group screen to navigate to their information
- You will now see a list of options allowing you to create and view Appointments, Medicines, Carer Visits, Clubs and Notes.
- By tapping the 3 dots in the app bar at top-right you can navigate to the Settings screen where you can toggle the different information types on and off for this particular Care Group. You can also choose light or dark mode on the Settings screen.
- When you tap through to any of the options, for example Appointments, you will see a list of existing entries and a button that allows you to add new ones.
- Swipe existing items from left-to-right to edit them, and after making changes tap the floating button to save your changes (tapping the back arrow will discard any updates).
- Swipe existing items from right-to-left to delete them after being prompted to confirm.

Medicines
- Tapping an item in the Medicines list ticks the checkbox, indicating that the medicine has been given on the current day.
- The checkbox automatically clears at the start of the next day, or can be cleared by tapping again.