Your Care Fingerprint™
Understand how you approach care—and how it may differ from the people you care about.
Your Care Fingerprint™ is the unique combination of life experiences, relationships, values, beliefs, and circumstances that shapes how you think about giving, receiving, and planning for care.
The Create Your Care Fingerprint™ Workbook helps you uncover those influences so you can better understand your assumptions, navigate different family perspectives, and make more intentional care decisions.
We don't enter care decisions with a blank slate.
The family we grew up in. The care we've given and received. Our experiences with health, loss, work, money, independence, responsibility, and family.
All of these experiences shape what we believe good care should look like.
That's one reason two people can love the same person and still see the same care decision very differently. One may be protecting independence while another is protecting safety. One may see asking for help as responsible; another may experience it as a loss of independence.
Understanding your Care Fingerprint helps make those invisible influences visible—so you can better understand your own perspective and the perspectives of the people around you.
Create Your Care Fingerprint™
This guided 23-page workbook helps you explore the experiences and influences that have shaped your relationship with care. You'll reflect on:
Family & relationships
The early experiences, relationships, and family roles that shaped you
Work, money & identity
How career, financial experiences, and responsibilities influence the choices you believe are possible
Caregiving
The care you've given, received, and witnessed
Values & worldview
Your assumptions about aging, independence, help, family responsibility, and what good care means
Health & healthcare
How your own health and experiences with healthcare have influenced your views
What matters most
The things you most want to protect when making care decisions
Loss & change
How significant losses and life transitions have affected you
You'll bring those reflections together to create a picture of your own unique Care Fingerprint.
Make better care conversations possible.
Your Care Fingerprint isn't a personality type, and it doesn't tell you what decision is “right.” It gives you a better starting point.
Use your Care Fingerprint to:
Understand the assumptions you bring to care
Compare perspectives with family members
Recognize what may be driving disagreement
Prepare for difficult conversations
Separate what you truly value from what you may have assumed
Make more intentional care decisions
Families can complete their Care Fingerprints individually and then compare them—creating an opportunity to understand what each person brings to the conversation before a difficult decision or crisis occurs.
Your Care Fingerprint is part of your story.
It doesn't have to write your future.
Create Your Care Fingerprint™
23-page guided reflection workbook
Note: When we say family, we mean anyone involved in supporting someone’s care—including parents and adult children, partners, friends, neighbors, and community or faith-based supporters. Individuals planning for their own care can also use these tools.