Know the next right step for your aging parent
For adult children caring for an aging parent — and for anyone caring for a spouse or partner, or planning ahead for themselves. CareBridge Navigator turns a confusing elder-care situation into one clear next step. Answer six honest questions about your parent's health, home, finances, and the crisis that brought you here. In about ten minutes you get a plain-English roadmap: the level of care the situation suggests, what it typically costs near your parent's ZIP code, which benefit programs may pay for it, and exactly what to do this week.
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- No referral fees for placement — nobody pays us to steer your parent anywhere
- Privacy by design — your health data stays private
- No card required for the assessment
Your parent's health details stay private — encrypted, never sold, never shared. See how we handle your information.
You walk away knowing you did not miss something critical — and you can be the one in the family who finally has answers, not just worry.
Built by Shanda Browning Vaughn, RN, a working registered nurse since 2000 who has sat on both sides of the hospital discharge conversation, from Evans, Georgia.
What you get
- A personalized care roadmap you can print or share with siblings
- Benefits guidance for Medicare, Medicaid, VA Aid & Attendance, and EEOICPA nuclear worker programs
- Cost ranges for in-home care, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing
- Scripts for hospital discharge planners, doctors, and benefits offices
- A shared Care Hub for medications, appointments, documents, and family updates
The words to say, written out for you
“Before we agree to discharge, I’d like to understand the plan. Has my mother been assessed for a Medicare-covered skilled nursing or rehab stay, and what did that assessment find? If she isn’t being referred for rehab, please write down the reason. I’d also like the home health orders and who is arranging them before she leaves.”
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When families come to us
- A parent is being discharged from the hospital and you are not sure home is safe
- A new dementia, cancer, Parkinson's, or heart-failure diagnosis just changed everything
- Care costs are climbing and you do not know what benefits your family qualifies for
- You are the long-distance sibling trying to coordinate care from another state
Why not just use free resources?
- Free help is real, but it is scattered across dozens of sites, offices, and phone trees. CareBridge puts what applies to your family in one roadmap in about ten minutes.
- Benefit programs are rarely advertised well. Our matching surfaces programs families miss — one Ohio daughter waited 18 months for respite hours she could have had from week one.
- AARP and your Area Agency on Aging will not write you the words to say. CareBridge gives you RN-written scripts for the discharge planner, the doctor, and the benefits office.
Will six questions really capture our situation? They are the same six a nurse asks first: where care is needed, who it is for, their age, what help they need day to day, the diagnosis, and what just changed. Anything the roadmap gets wrong you can correct, and you can retake the assessment as the situation changes.
Pricing
The assessment and roadmap preview are free. Full access starts at $17 per month or $144 per year — annual billing saves $60 a year. Less than one hour with a geriatric care manager, who typically charges $100 to $200 an hour. Every account starts with a 3-day free trial, and you can cancel anytime. For care managers and advisors, the Professional Partner plan is $97 per month or $970 per year and covers up to 25 client profiles, client billing notes, and priority support.
30-day money-back guarantee: if CareBridge isn't right for your family, email us for a full refund. No questions asked.
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CareBridge Navigator is an educational tool. It does not provide medical, legal, or financial advice, and it is not a substitute for care from a licensed clinician.