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AI Without the Hype · For family caregivers

Smart, Simple Help for Family Caregivers

You’re carrying more than anyone can see.

The medicines, the appointments, the bills, the insurance letters, the worried calls from your brother, and the quiet fear that you’ll miss something important. AI can’t take that weight off your shoulders. But used well, it can help you carry it.

Organize it.Check it.Share it.

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Available in Kindle and paperback.

Is this book for you?

Written for you if…

  • You’re caring for an aging parent or a spouse
  • Medicines, appointments and paperwork live in your head, or nowhere
  • You want AI’s help without putting your loved one’s private information at risk

You’ll meet Joanne, caring for her mother from two hours away; Tom, whose wife ran the house until her stroke; Maria, with two teenagers and her father at home; and Paul, one of three siblings who agree on almost nothing.

Inside you’ll discover

What you’ll be able to do

  • Organize it. Check it. Share it. — the three moves that make caregiving manageable
  • A care binder built with AI: medicine list, contacts, calendar and an emergency page
  • How to get ready for appointments and understand discharge papers, and check every answer with the right person
  • A parent’s money and paperwork: bills, benefits, the scams aimed at older adults, and questions for an elder law attorney
  • Caring from a distance, sharing the work with siblings, caring for yourself, and a 30-day plan

What’s inside: 8 chapters

One practical skill in each, with prompts you can use the same day.

  1. What AI Can and Can’t Do for a Caregiver
  2. Their Information Is Theirs
  3. Organize It: The Care Binder
  4. Check It: Doctors, Discharge Papers, and Medicines
  5. Check It: A Parent’s Money and Paperwork
  6. Share It: Caring From a Distance, and Sharing the Load
  7. Share It: Caring for the Caregiver
  8. Your 30-Day Caregiving Plan

Try two prompts from the book

Replace anything in [brackets] with your own details. AI drafts; you decide.

Build the medicine list“Turn this list of my [mother’s / father’s / spouse’s] medicines into a one-page chart. Here they are, with no names or prescription numbers: [medicine names, doses, and directions]. Columns: medicine (and brand name if there is one), dose, morning, noon, evening, bedtime, what it’s for in plain English, and special instructions. Large, clear type, with a blank line at the top for allergies. Don’t add or change anything; flag anything unclear with a question mark.”
The weekly family update“Turn my notes into a short weekly family update about my [mother / father / spouse], under 150 words. Three sections: How they’re doing, What’s coming up, and Where I could use help. Calm, clear, and honest. Here are my notes, with no names or ID numbers: [notes].”

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Get the free Caregiver Kit now: eight printable pages for your care binder, including the medicine list, contact sheet, and emergency page from the book. I’ll send a note the day Smart, Simple Help for Family Caregivers is available.

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    Leland Root spent more than thirty years in IT, mostly in business analysis: standing between new technology and the people who have to use it, and asking what it’s really doing for them. He writes plainspoken guides that skip both the hype and the fear. He lives in Arizona.

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