My Shift is the heart of your caregiver dashboard. It is where you start your work, document as you go, and close out cleanly at the end of each visit. Built for the way real caregivers actually work, in small increments, not long note-writing sessions at the end of the day.
Where to find it
My Shift is your landing page. If you have navigated away, go to My Clients in your sidebar, at the top under Catch Me Up.
Before your first visit: the location notice
The first time you check in, a short notice appears explaining what SeniorThrive does with your location. Read it once and confirm it. Worth knowing, because it is your phone and your whereabouts:
Your location is captured once when you start a visit and once when you end it. Never continuously, and never in the background.
If you deny location access, you can still check in. You pick a reason instead, and the visit is recorded without verification.
This is electronic visit verification, the same thing many agencies already require. It exists so a family can see their loved one got a real visit, at a real time.
Starting a visit
When you arrive at the older adult's home, tap Check In in Quick Actions.
Confirm which family you are visiting, if you work with more than one.
The button changes to Visit Active, and a banner stays at the top of your screen until you finish.
Check in when you arrive, not when you remember. Your time is tracked from the moment you check in, and your notes attach to the right visit.
During the visit
Log activities as they happen rather than saving them for the end. Each tap is one log entry.
Meals. What they ate, how much, any concerns.
Medications. What you administered, the time, any reactions.
Personal care. Bathing, grooming, dressing, without clinical detail unless relevant.
Mobility. Walks taken, transfers assisted, any stumbles.
Mood and mental state. How they were today, changes from last visit.
Observations. Anything the family should know. A new bruise. A cough that was not there last week. A rug that has curled at the edge.
Small notes made in the moment are more accurate than long ones written from memory at home.
If you want the fuller structured walk-through instead, open the full visit form from the activity dialog. That is the Comprehensive Visit, and it has its own article.
Ending a visit
When you are ready to leave, tap End Visit.
Review what you logged.
Add a brief wrap-up note for the family: "Good visit. Ate well. Plenty of energy today. Next visit Thursday as scheduled." Two or three sentences is enough.
The family sees the wrap-up note. The full log is available whenever they want it.
Visit history
Your visits are saved and organized by date under Visit Notes, in the Log It section of your sidebar. You can pull up any past visit to remember what happened, review a pattern, or verify a date. Useful for your own records, for the family, and for any agency review.
The philosophy behind My Shift
Good caregiving is mostly attention, and documentation is how that attention reaches the family and the caregivers who come after you. A few honest notes at the right moment are worth more than a clinical report written from memory.
My Shift is built to make the documentation feel like part of the care, not a separate task stacked on top.