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Organize a parent's stroke recovery at home with a Claude project

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Paul Baier used a Claude project to prioritize home care for an 84-year-old father after a stroke and catch pills that can't be crushed.

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My 84-year-old father is coming home after a severe stroke, and my brother and I share a to-do list of medications, home setup and other tasks. Here is the list. Put it in priority order, then tell me what we're missing for a safe first few weeks at home.

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Before you start, ask me 1–3 short questions about the details below and wait for my answers. Once I've answered, confirm the plan in one line and run the whole task start to finish.

Goal: Turn our family's to-do list into a prioritized plan for a parent coming home after a hospital stay, and point out what we've missed.

Questions to ask me first:
- What happened, and what did the discharge papers say about care at home?
- Who is helping, and who lives with the parent?
- Which tasks have deadlines, such as follow-up visits or equipment delivery?

Inputs (fill in or confirm):
- Our current to-do list: [LIST]
- Discharge instructions and follow-up appointments: [DETAILS]
- Medications as written on the discharge sheet: [MEDICATIONS]
- Who is helping and when: [PEOPLE / SCHEDULE]
- Insurance on the cards (plan names only, no member numbers): [PLANS]

Rules:
- Sort tasks into today, this week and later, and say why each one is in that spot.
- Suggest a one-page fridge sheet of warning signs that mean call 911 and symptoms to report to the doctor, based only on the discharge papers or the condition, and mark it [CHECK WITH CARE TEAM].
- Treat any question about crushing, splitting or timing medications as something to confirm with the pharmacist; never change a dose or schedule yourself.
- Include things the parent can look forward to, not only safety tasks.

Checkpoint: Show me the sorted list and your list of gaps, and wait for my corrections before writing the fridge sheet.

If you get stuck: If a task depends on a rule you're unsure of, such as insurance coverage, say so and tell me who to ask instead of guessing.

Verify before you finish: Check every medication name and appointment against my inputs and list anything you had to assume.

Output: A prioritized task list, a list of gaps, a draft one-page fridge sheet and a short list of questions for the pharmacist and doctor.

Done when: Our family has a clear plan, a fridge sheet the care team has checked and nothing important missing.

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Outcome

Paul Baier's 84-year-old father had a severe stroke and spent seven days in intensive care and five weeks in the hospital and rehab. On day one, Baier set up a single Claude project and asked Claude to write its own custom instructions for helping an 84-year-old man recovering from a stroke. Baier pasted in the shared Google Doc of tasks Baier and a brother kept, had Claude prioritize it and asked what was missing. Its best idea was a one-page sheet for the refrigerator listing the stroke warning signs to call 911 and key symptoms to tell the doctor about. From photos of the insurance cards, Claude explained Medicare, Medicaid and supplemental coverage. From photos of the discharge medication sheets, it flagged the timed-release drugs that cannot be crushed, and the family confirmed the list with the pharmacy. Baier also used voice mode through CarPlay during errands. Asked again what was missing, Claude suggested finding things to look forward to, so the family got the father more involved with church and brought in some cookbooks.

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https://gaiinsights.substack.com/p/my-dad-had-a-stroke-claude-became

Context: Baier works at GAI Insights, an AI advisory firm. The family confirmed the crushable-pill list with the pharmacy; check medication and warning-sign advice with the care team.

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