Stroke home-recovery checklist
Organise mobility, communication, medication and follow-up needs for the weeks after a stroke, guided by the discharge plan.
Using this planning tool
Fill this in together with the person receiving care where possible, and describe what you can observe: how much help standing from a chair takes, what a mealtime actually looks like. Observable descriptions transfer to a caregiver; labels like “high needs” do not.
Complete this tool using details from one real day. Keep observable facts separate from assumptions, name the person responsible for follow-up and review the record before sharing it.
Store the current version where authorised family members and the caregiver can reach it, date every revision, and clear out superseded instructions. Keep identity documents and unrelated medical records elsewhere — a planning sheet circulates too widely for them.
Bring the completed sheet into the WhatsApp enquiry: it lets the family state location, hours, daily-living support and clinical boundaries in one message instead of five, and makes gaps visible before the first shift instead of during it.
Before you fill it in
- The exact situation the tool is meant to capture
- Any current professional instruction to reflect
- Who will read or receive the completed record
- How often the record needs updating
- What to keep private and share only when needed
Stroke home-recovery checklist
This tool stays in your browser. Nothing entered here is sent or stored by this website.
Questions this tool helps answer
- What decision or handover is this record for?
- How will it be kept current as needs change?
- Who needs to see it, and what should stay private?
- Does anything here belong in a secure record instead?
- Which entries should prompt a call to a professional?
Continue planning
Discuss your care request
Share the location and broad daily-support need. Add detailed or sensitive information only after the first questions and recipient are clear.
Discuss your care request