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My Home, Step by Step: a plan for the house, in the order the house needs it

The plan for your house under My Home: see one room first, prepare your free emergency card, then steps sorted by when they matter, and papers for when you're ready.

Written by Brian Fluhr

To use My Home, Step by Step, sign in first.

This page explains how it works. The tool itself is inside your SeniorThrive account.

My Home, Step by Step is the plan for your house, in the order the house needs it. Open My Home and tap My Home, Step by Step. It is the first card under See your home, one room at a time.

Two moves first

Before your home has any steps, the page shows two moves.

See one room. Take a photo of the bathroom, the stairs, or the kitchen. Fresh eyes on the room, not on you. Tap Take a photo.

Prepare your free emergency card. Names, medicines, and allergies that matter, for you and the people you trust. It takes about five minutes. Tap Create my free card whenever you want.

Once your home has steps

The to-dos from your Room Checks become the steps of this plan. The page sorts them into This month and This season, and longer-term ones sit under When you're ready. Overall Home Progress counts the steps that are done. Download Plan (PDF) appears at the top, so you can save the plan to your device, print it, or hand it to someone.

When you're ready

This section stays closed until you open it, whenever you like. Inside are four rows: Someone to handle my affairs, Health care instructions, Emergency contacts and physicians, and Home and insurance papers. Each one says Whenever you like until it is done, then In place.

Note where it is opens My Documents. Add care wishes opens your care wishes. Fill out card opens your emergency card.

What is on which plan

You can read and print the plan on every plan, and the emergency card is free. On the Free plan, the rows for your papers and your care wishes are marked Essential. Running a new Room Check, and opening a step in Home Safety To-Dos, are part of Essential too. During a trial, every step is open.

You do not have to do it all yourself

Open a step to see it in Home Safety To-Dos, then tap Hand this to someone to pass it to a person in your Circle. You stay in charge.

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