Visit Notes is where you jot down what happened when you visited.
It is a journal, not a chart. How your loved one seemed, what you talked about, the thing you want to remember or the thing you want to raise next time.
Where to find it
Open Caregiving and choose Visit Notes.
This is not the same Visit Notes a caregiver writes
Worth knowing, because the name appears in two places for two different jobs.
A professional caregiver documents a shift: times, tasks, vitals, incidents. That is a work record, kept to a professional standard, and it belongs to the care record.
Yours is a family journal. Nobody is grading it, there is no format to follow, and a two-line entry is a perfectly good entry.
What to write
Whatever you would want to remember, or want another family member to know.
The useful ones are usually specific and small. They ate well. They seemed brighter than last week. They mentioned the stairs twice. The kettle was in the fridge, which they laughed about.
Those details are hard to hold in your head across weeks, and they are exactly what turns "I think something has been a bit off lately" into something you can actually describe to a doctor.
Adding one
Use the add control on the page, write your note, and save it. Your notes are listed together so you can look back through them.
The habit that makes it worth doing
Write it in the car, or as soon as you get home. Anything more than a day old loses the detail that made it worth writing.
Two lines every visit beats a thorough entry once a month. The value is in the run of them, not in any single one.
Where it helps most
Before an appointment. A doctor asking how the last few months have gone is a hard question to answer from memory, and a scroll back through short notes answers it properly.
It also helps when more than one of you is involved. A sibling who visits less often can catch up in a couple of minutes rather than asking you to summarise.
A note on honesty
This is your record, so write the true version, including the hard visits and the ones where you lost your patience.
Nobody scores this and nothing is reported. A note you softened for an imagined audience is not much use to you later, and this is one of the few places in caregiving where you do not have to perform.