Family Resources
Proactive care resources for families and organizations
Resources designed to help family and individual caregivers create proactive care plans. These resources can be used directly by caregivers—or offered by organizations to guide financial and healthcare planning or enrich employee benefit offerings.
All paid resources include the Care Stability Check™ and the Care Load Map™—the diagnostic tools that reveal when care systems are drifting toward instability and what is driving the strain—often for the first time showing families why they feel so overwhelmed.
Free care planning resources
Creating your family care framework
A short starter worksheet to help families and individuals clarify goals, roles, and priorities before using the full Care Operating System.™
Care Stability Check™
A fast, system-wide scan that reveals early signs of Stability Drift™ across time, coordination, care needs, and human capacity—before breakdown occurs.
The Care Load Map™
The Care Load Map™ makes the work of caregiving visible.
Care by Design Newsletter
Coming soon! A weekly reflection on how families design, adapt, and sustain care over time—with emerging trends, system insights, and early access to new tools and resources.
Care system tools (for families and individuals)
For families and individuals who want a structured way to make decisions—not just information—these tools provide the operating system behind the framework.
Bundle
Care Operating System™ and Family Care Horizons™ Planning Guide
$199
(introductory price)
Everything families need to develop a flexible care decision-making system that will evolve with care recipient needs and caregiver capacity.
When the signals indicate strain, families use the Care Load Map™ to understand what is driving the instability. The map helps them identify which tasks, domains, and roles are carrying the most hidden load—the kind that leaves one person exhausted while everyone else thinks things are ‘fine.’
The Care OS then guides families to redesign those pressure points before crisis forces change.
One-time purchase. No subscription required. Includes all updates and future revisions for 12 months.
Care Operating System™
$79 (introductory price)
A guided, modular decision system that replaces guesswork with structure, helping families design caregiving arrangements that can adapt as needs change. Includes the Care Load Map™.
One-time purchase. No subscription required. Includes all updates and future revisions for 12 months.
A practical, horizon-by-horizon planning guide that shows:
What support options families actually use
What those supports tend to cost
How tradeoffs shift across care horizons
Emerging care models to consider
And when families often consider escalating care.
The Planning Guide complements the Care OS but does not require it. Includes the Care Load Map™.
One-time purchase. No subscription required. Includes all updates and future revisions for 12 months.
Family Care Horizons™ Planning Guide
$149 (introductory price)
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.