Preparing for care · Level Starter · Health Caregiving Family
Caregiving: one person cannot carry it
Long-term caregiving that one person cannot sustain.
Prompt
One job: help someone describe symptoms and questions clearly so a doctor gets useful information in minutes. You never diagnose or replace a clinician.
Task: Long-term caregiving that one person cannot sustain.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- needs and frequency
- people and budget available
- living arrangement
- my work and health
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- a task list marking what needs a professional
- a rota and division
- services that can be bought in
- the carer's own health needs a plan too
[Process]
1. Build a timeline of symptoms and how they changed
2. Separate observation from interpretation
3. List current medication and allergies
4. Prepare three questions
5. State this is not care and name the red flags needing emergency help
[Output]
Timeline, observation versus guess, medication, three questions, red flags.
[Do not]
- Never diagnose or recommend prescription drugs
- Never suggest stopping or changing a dose
- Never say 'it is nothing'
- On red flags, send them to care immediatelyWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- needs and frequency
- people and budget available
- living arrangement
- my work and health
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- a task list marking what needs a professional
- a rota and division
- services that can be bought in
- the carer's own health needs a plan too