Most visits are fast. Meals, medications, some personal care, a walk, a chat. The work of keeping someone well at home.
Once a week, or once every couple of weeks, it is worth slowing down for a more thorough look. The Comprehensive Visit is the structured walk-through for that. A consistent format. A clean summary for the family and, if they want, to share with the primary care physician.
Where to find it
The Comprehensive Visit is the full visit form, and you reach it from your documentation rather than from a sidebar link of its own.
Open Visit Notes in your sidebar, under Log It. When you log an activity there, the dialog offers a link to the full visit form. That is the Comprehensive Visit.
When to do one
Weekly or biweekly. A regular rhythm catches drift early.
After a hospitalization or ER visit. A formal re-baseline is useful.
When something feels off. Trust your instincts. A Comprehensive Visit is the tool for putting intuition into something concrete.
Before a scheduled doctor visit. A fresh summary gives the doctor useful context.
What it walks you through
The form has five tabs. A progress indicator at the top shows how much you have completed.
Activities. What happened during the visit: meals, personal care, mobility, mood, companionship. Tap what applies rather than writing it out.
Vitals. Blood pressure, pulse, weight, temperature, blood sugar. Enter them by hand or pull them in from a connected device.
Incidents. Falls, injuries, or anything else that needs a record. Tick no incidents today when there is nothing to report, so the family can see you checked rather than skipped.
Care Packs. The condition-specific checks the family has turned on. If they have added a Care Pack, its daily items appear here automatically.
Review. Your summary note, and the list of what gets shared with the family. The summary note is required.
The summary you get
On the Review tab you choose what the family sees, item by item. Nothing is shared that you have not put on that list.
Your written summary note goes with it. That note is the part the family reads first, so plain language is worth the extra thirty seconds.
When something needs flagging
If you record an incident that is a fall, or one where you indicate medical attention was needed, SeniorThrive adds it to the shared list automatically and marks it urgent. You do not have to remember to share it.
Everything else is your judgment. SeniorThrive does not decide that a reading is concerning or that a symptom matters. It records what you entered and shows it to the family. Reading the situation is your job, and it stays your job.
If something is truly alarming, call the family directly instead of relying on the app. A Comprehensive Visit complements a phone call, it does not replace it.
For agency-employed caregivers
If your agency has its own comprehensive check format, you can do both. The SeniorThrive Comprehensive Visit is for the family's benefit and coordination. Your agency's paperwork is for your agency. These are complementary, not duplicative.
A good Comprehensive Visit saves hours of family worry. Build it into your rhythm.