Senior Care Society is a community website that provides the tools for caregivers and their families to make educated and informed decisions about managing care. It provides concise informative articles, assessment tools, provider directories to assist families in planning, making decisions and connecting with resources that can assist them in their time of need. What sets Senior Care Society apart from the other senior care sites is the family portal. The family portal allows families to collaborate and gives them the tools to collectively mange the care of their loved one. It allows family members to send and track updates on their health condition. It provides a diary from each family member to log and track their observations of events that need to be reported to health professionals. It provides a repository to upload and share critical document like living will, health directive, completed application for a nursing home and prearranged funeral arrangements. Finally the family portal provides a contacts listing. This is to be used to records all the individuals and services that you are using to manage their care. Whether it is the address of their preferred pharmacy, family doctors, dentist or hairdresser, everyone knows who to contact when a need arises.
