Caregiver Coordination Skill

Family caregiving fails in a predictable shape: the nearest sibling absorbs everything by default, information lives in one exhausted head, and resentment does the scheduling. This skill makes the work visible before dividing it — a care map of what actually needs doing and when — then builds a rotation that survives real life (backups, escalation rules, no martyrs) and a binder so that any authorized helper can act without phoning the exhausted one.

What This Skill Produces

• The care map — every recurring need (medical, daily living, household, financial-admin, companionship) with frequency and skill level required
• The rotation — who covers what, with explicit backup rules and a definition of "covered"
• The binder outline — medications, providers, insurance, legal documents, routines — the transferable brain
• The family meeting agenda — a repeatable structure that surfaces load honestly and renegotiates before resentment does

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

• The care recipient's situation — needs by category, what they can still do (preserving autonomy is part of care), what's changing
• The helper roster — family, friends, paid help; each person's distance, capacity, and constraints stated honestly
• What exists today — who's doing what now (the invisible-load audit), any legal groundwork (POA, healthcare proxy) — existing or missing
• The friction — what fight keeps happening; the schedule must route around known fault lines