MyListResortGuide
A care sheet a sitter can follow, printable and always current
Every family that hands off care has some version of the sheet: the phone numbers, the routine, the foods, the things that help. Usually it lives in a drawer, three phone numbers out of date. Below is a free blank you can print right now, and the way to keep a version that never goes stale.
What belongs on it
Write for the first hour, not the whole week: who to call and in what order, how the day usually goes, what helps when things get hard and what makes it harder, the foods that always work with their exact brands, and where things live. Use your own words. The reader needs your phrasing ("she says no by looking away") far more than a form's checkbox.
The printable blank
Print it, fill it in by hand, put it where the sitter will actually look. No signup.
About
Emergency basics
How they communicate, and what yes and no look like:
What calms a hard moment, and what to skip:
If they go missing: call 911 first. Places they head, water nearby:
Who to call
Doctor and care team, with the after-hours line:
School or program, and pickup rules:
Backup adult nearby, and how fast they can be there:
A typical day
Morning, with times:
Evening and bedtime:
What helps
Favorite things right now:
What to skip:
Food notes
Foods that always work, exact brands:
Allergies and medicines, doses and where they are kept:
Printed from mylistresort.com/guides/printable-care-sheet, prepared by . If you find an older copy, replace it with a fresh print.
Paper goes stale. The live version does not.
The printed sheet is honest about what it is: a copy, current the day it was printed. That is why the blank above stamps its print date. The other half of the answer is keeping the sheet as a shared list: create one from the Care guide template under Care & routines and every line becomes a row you can edit the day something changes. Invite the people who care for your person (they create a free account to view it) and they read the current version, view-only, on their own phone.
The template asks the same questions as the blank: emergency basics, who to call, a typical day, what helps, food notes. It ships as prompts, not pre-filled answers, so an unfinished guide reads as unfinished instead of wrong.
FAQ
What should a caregiver care sheet include?
The things a sitter or grandparent needs in the first hour: who to call and in what order, the shape of a typical day, what helps in a hard moment and what to skip, food notes with exact brands, and where important things live. Write it in your own words; the person reading it needs your phrasing, not a form’s.
Is the printable sheet really free?
Yes. Print the blank on this page, fill it in by hand, done. No signup, no email, no watermark. Safety content on this site stays free.
Why keep a live version too?
Because the drawer copy goes stale. Phone numbers change, routines shift, foods drop off. A care sheet kept as a shared list gets edited the day something changes, and every caregiver sees the current version instead of last year’s printout.
Who can see a care guide kept in the app?
Only the people you invite to that list. Shares default to view-only, so a sitter can read it without changing it. MyListResort never asks for a diagnosis and has no medical fields; every line is yours.
More for care households: the Care & routines templates · the safe foods list · wandering safety information