About the project
Practical help when an older parent is coming home.
This site is designed for adult children helping an elderly parent move from a hospital, rehabilitation facility, or skilled nursing facility into the first 14 days home.
Discharge can bring medication changes, appointments, home-health calls, equipment, home setup, warning-sign instructions, and family responsibilities all at once. Family Elder Planning helps families turn those details into clear questions, written answers, and a plan for who will handle each task.
Created by Faz Azad
A personal reason for building Family Elder Planning
Family Elder Planning is an independent project created by Faz Azad, a technology professional building practical family-organization tools.
I’ve created a number of technology-focused websites and applications, but Family Elder Planning is much more personal for me. I started this site after my mother-in-law became ill and spent several days in the hospital. When she was ready to come home, our family realized how unprepared we were to organize the transition, understand what needed to happen next, divide responsibilities, and keep track of follow-up.
My wife is a kindergarten teacher, and I work in technology. We are both accustomed to managing significant responsibilities, but neither of us felt prepared for everything involved in helping an older parent return home. The experience showed me how easily even capable and caring families can feel overwhelmed during a hospital-to-home transition.
I created Family Elder Planning to bring practical organizational guidance into one calm place. My goal is to help families feel more prepared, less uncertain, and better able to support someone they love.
I have also sought practical feedback from licensed social workers and others who support families. Their feedback has helped improve the organization and usefulness of the site, and I’m immensely grateful for their contributions.
Family Elder Planning is not a medical provider. It provides organizational support—not medical, legal, financial, insurance, tax, benefits, or emergency advice.
— Faz Azad
Creator of Family Elder Planning
An independent project
No hospital, health system, government agency, professional association, insurer, provider, or community organization currently sponsors or endorses Family Elder Planning.
Family Elder Planning does not accept paid provider rankings, referral-based endorsements, sponsored editorial placement, or provider-listing fees. Separately, an approved organization may sponsor access to the Family Care Coordination System for families. Sponsoring access does not give the organization automatic access to a family’s private workspace or imply endorsement by Family Elder Planning. Public resources remain neutral enough for a family member, discharge planner, social worker, case manager, senior center, faith community, or caregiver-support group to share without creating a referral relationship.
What the site does—and does not do
It helps organize
Questions for the discharge team, written instructions, medication changes, appointments, home setup, family tasks, calls, and daily notes.
It does not advise
No diagnosis, treatment, medication dosing, emergency triage, provider recommendation, legal guidance, financial guidance, insurance advice, tax advice, or benefits advice.
You can start for free
The main checklist and planning tool are free to use. You do not need an account, payment, or email address.
It stays within its limits
Family Elder Planning offers organization help, not medical guidance.
About Privacy
You can use the site without sharing personal care details. There is no account or saved online care plan, and notes entered in the planner stay on your device.
- Planner names, medication questions, and family notes stay on the visitor’s device.
- The free checklist opens without an email address.
- Optional quick-sheet delivery uses an email address only to send the resource; future-email consent is a separate unchecked choice.
- Analytics uses bounded events, allowlisted paths, enums, counts, and booleans—not names, email addresses, free text, medical details, full referrers, IP addresses, or user agents.
- Stripe handles payment details, and protected buyer access remains private and noindex.
Read the full privacy policy.
Editorial accountability and corrections
The editorial policy explains how topics are selected, which public sources are preferred, how AI-assisted drafting is handled, and why AI assistance is not clinical review.
If a page is confusing, inaccurate, out of date, inaccessible, or broken, use the contact and support page. Select “Site or checklist problem” and identify the page and correction without including personal medical details.
For safety boundaries, read the medical disclaimer. For purchase access or a refund request, use contact support and review the refund policy.