Care Circle Guide
Introducing Care Circle and My Memories
Care Circle connects family caregivers together to share notes and jointly create Memories to celebrate the life of your loved one with dementia. These Memory records can be used as personalised content making every interaction throughout the dementia journey a meaningful one.
*You will need to have an existing CARA account before you can be added to a Care Circle. Please ensure that you are using the most recent version of the ‘CARA SG’ app.
Set up your Care Circle
Step 01.
Sign in to your CARA app.
Ensure you are signed in to your Caregiver account.
If you have just signed up for CARA, your account will need to be approved before you can access the Care Circles feature.
Step 02.
Tap on “Care Circle”.
You will need to be an approved member to access this feature.
Step 04.
Select your relationship.
Pick your relationship with the person living with dementia from the list available, or select “Other” and type in the space provided.
You will need to agree with the acknowledgement then tap “Submit Request”.
A notification will be sent to your loved one’s with dementia CARA account.
Step 05.
Sign in to your loved one's with dementia CARA account.
Ensure you are now signed in to the CARA account of your Loved One with dementia (not Caregiver).
You should receive a notification to approve a request. Tap on the notification to Approve/Decline this request.
The requestor will receive a notification that they have been added to the Care Circle.
Optional
Assigning a caregiver as your Care Circle Admin*.
Up to two designated Caregivers may be given administrative rights to invite or approve other CARA members to the Care Circle, on behalf of your loved one with dementia.
Still signed in to the account of your Loved One with dementia, tap on “Care Circle”, and a list of caregivers will be displayed.
On the selected caregiver’s name, tap on the ellipsis “…” then “Set As”.
Select “Admin” and tap “OK”.
*Approving next-of-kin still requires signing in to the account of the person living with dementia.
Join a care circle
Step 01.
Sign in to your CARA app.
Ensure you are signed in to your Caregiver account.
*Your CARA membership will need to be approved before you can access the Care Circles feature.
Step 02.
Tap on “Care Circle”.
Step 04.
Select your relationship.
Pick your relationship with the person living with dementia from the list available, or select “Other” and type in the space provided.
You will need to agree with the acknowledgement then tap “Submit Request”.
A notification will be sent to your loved one’s with dementia or the Care Circle Admin’s CARA account.
Invite to Care Circle
Step 01.
Sign in to your CARA app.
Ensure you have been set up as a Care Circle Admin. Sign in to your Caregiver* account.
*Only Caregivers who have been set as the Care Circle Admin may invite members to the Care Circle.
Step 02.
Tap on “Care Circle”.
You will need to be an approved member to access this feature.
Step 05.
Input your invitation message.
Once the caregiver’s account is found, an additional ‘Message’ field will be visible. Input a short invitation message to the caregiver.
You will need to agree with the acknowledgement then tap “Invite”.
A notification will be sent to the account of the invited caregiver.
Accepting/Rejecting Care Circle Requests
Add a new "Memory"
Step 04.
Create Tags for your Memory record to improve searchability.
Tap the “+” icon next to Tags to add a new Tag.
Type in your text in the space provided and click the “+” icon to add to the Tag list. You can have more than one Tag per memory record.
After adding all the desired Tags, tap the “Save Tag” button.
