One-page medical summary

For the moment when someone asks 'what is their baseline?' and you have thirty seconds. One page, the facts they ask for, nothing else.

Baseline is the part families forget

Clinicians can read the diagnosis from the record. What they cannot read is what normal looks like for this person: do they walk, do they use a frame, do they know the day, do they speak English, do they live alone. Write that down in plain words — "walks to the bathroom with a frame, needs help dressing, orientated to person and place but not date" tells an emergency team more than any diagnosis code.

What goes on the page

• Who they are — name, date of birth, language, who they live with.
• Baseline — mobility, cognition, hearing and vision, and what help they need with daily tasks.
• Medical — current conditions, allergies, medicines with doses.
• Contacts — doctor, pharmacy, family, and the code status with the location of the signed document.

Keep one printed copy in the emergency bag

Update the page whenever the baseline changes — after a fall, a hospital stay, or a new diagnosis. Print two: one for the emergency room bag, one for whoever is on duty. Fill it in below; the data stays on this device.

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