Care kits

Fund a kit, or learn the method

Two ways to put money into this that are not buying a kit for yourself.

Sponsor a kit for a family who cannot pay

A kit is one person’s medical story in one place, out of their own records and in their own words, on their own phone: the next visit and the questions for it, one sheet to hand each clinician, what was said in the room, and who holds the list. The demonstration kit shows the whole of it, built for an invented person.

Some families need one and cannot pay for one. This funds a whole kit for such a family.

Who it goes to

A family referred by a clinic, a congregation or a hospice, in Oregon or Washington, where more than one clinician is involved and nobody is holding the list. The referrer suggests; the family decides whether they want a kit at all. Nobody is signed up for one.

What the family is told

That the kit was paid for, and by someone who asked for nothing back. Not your name, unless you ask me to tell them and they want to know it.

What you get back

A note from me when the kit is handed over, saying that it was, and the family’s own words about it if they choose to give them. The method, the same download below. Nothing else, and nothing about the person: not their name, their condition, their records, or anything they said. If you want a photograph of a grateful family for a report, this is the wrong thing to fund.

What your money does not buy

No say in which family, no access to a kit, no mention on the kit, no visit, no introduction. The family’s kit belongs to the family from the moment it is handed over.

If no family is referred

I will not manufacture one to spend your money. If six months pass with no family who wants a kit, you choose: it waits, it goes to the next one, or I return it.

When a sponsored kit is made

Kits are made one at a time, and each one takes weeks rather than days. If you fund one today it is likely to be handed over in the first half of next year. I will tell you when it starts, not only when it finishes.

The method

The written method for making a care kit: how the intake conversation goes, what goes on each page and what stays off, the update protocol after a visit, and the page templates. It is what I follow, written down as it grew, and it is enough to start a kit of your own for someone you love.

What it is not

Not software, not a service, and not a qualification. It does not make you anyone’s advocate and it does not come with me. If you use it for someone in your own family you are doing what families have always done, with better paper.

Why it costs anything at all

Because free things in this field are usually advertisements for something expensive, and this is not that. $25 is roughly what a good manual costs, and it pays for a share of the hours that wrote it down properly instead of leaving it in my head.

When the method ships

After a healthcare lawyer has read it. I am not publishing instructions for handling somebody’s medical records before someone qualified has told me what is wrong with them. If you buy it before then you are funding that read, and you get the method when it exists. If the lawyer’s answer is that it should not be published at all, you get your money back and I will say so publicly.

Who does what

I am a care systems liaison: I work on the records and the questions, and your clinicians do the medicine. No diagnosis, no treatment advice, no medicine changes. I do not call anyone’s clinicians or sit in their appointments; the kit is built so that the family does.

I work for the person a kit is about, not for a hospital, an insurer or a practice.

I work with families in Oregon and Washington.

Written with AI, and read against the records. The pages are drafted and drawn with AI tools from the records they cite and the person’s own words. Every page is then read against those records by the person who made it. The records themselves can be wrong or out of date, and only the person’s own clinicians can tell you if they are. Nothing in a kit is medical advice, and nothing in it decides anything.

Before anything of a family’s goes to an AI tool, names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers and record numbers are taken out on my own machine and put back only in what comes home.

How

Tell me which one, and anything you want to ask first. It comes to my email and to the website’s own form store, nowhere else, and it commits you to nothing until we have spoken. There is no checkout here on purpose: if we agree, payment happens by invoice afterward, and the invoice shows the full price.