Older Adults and Accessible Preparedness Pack

A large-print guide with fill-in worksheets for adults 65 and over, people with disabilities, and the family and caregivers who support them.

A calm, large-print plan for the days when power, pharmacies or helpers are out of reach.

TWO PDFs IN ONE DOWNLOAD

- Quick Pack (13 pages): the one-page plan, the checklists and the sheets to fill in. Open this one first.

- Full Guide (186 pages): the reasons, worked examples and sources.

Both are in large print.

WHAT YOU GET

- A Start Here section with a contents table and a map that sends you to the right sections, whether you have a mobility, vision, hearing or memory need, use powered equipment, take daily medicine, live alone or care for someone else.

- Seven small first-week jobs, each under 30 minutes, so you can start without feeling swamped.

- A Helper Agreement (W2), a Helper Network Map and Phone List (W3) and a Daily Check-In and Escalation Ladder (W4), plus a short script for asking someone to help.

- A true one-page Emergency Information Sheet (W5) with an optional back page, and a cut-out Wallet Card (W5b), with a table showing where to keep copies so one flood or lockout cannot take them all.

- A Medicine List and Supply Tracker (W6) with clear supply targets, refill habits and what to do if a refill hits a snag. It records what your labels say and never gives dosing advice.

- An Equipment Power Plan (W7) and Supplier Call Sheet (W8) covering oxygen, CPAP or BiPAP, power chairs and scooters, home dialysis and refrigerated medicines, with step-by-step generator and carbon monoxide safety.

- Plain lists of alert channels, a bedside find-it-in-the-dark check, a spare-aids rule and a cut-out set of Communication Cards (W9) for deaf, low-vision, speech and mobility needs.

- A Stay-or-Go Decision Card (W10), a 3-day Go-Kit Checklist (W11) and an Evacuation Help and Transport Plan (W12), with a flood and ice warning and advice on upper floors, rides, registries and special-needs shelters.

- A 2-week Stay-at-Home Kit Checklist (W13) and a Hot-Day and Cold-Day Plan with room temperature log (W14), plus worked ice storm and broken air-conditioning scenarios.

- A fill-in script card (W15) for your first hour in a hospital or shelter, with plain facts about service animals and what shelters should support.

- A dementia section with a Person Profile and Emergency Kit (W16), a wandering-prevention plan and a 15-minute If They Are Missing card (W17).

- A Money and Documents Locator (W18), a Before You Pay Card (W19), contractor checks, a hang-up script and a one-page note for UK readers.

WHO IT IS FOR

Adults aged 65 and over, people with disabilities (mobility, vision, hearing, memory and thinking, powered medical equipment, daily medication), and the family and caregivers who support them.

GOOD TO KNOW

- Print it, or keep it on your phone or tablet. US Letter, prints on A4 too.

- Digital download: read the free sample first. We cannot refund a guide once it has been downloaded. If the file is faulty, will not open or is not what we described, email hello@afternormal.co and we will fix it, replace it or refund you.

- General educational information, not medical, legal or emergency advice.