The Medication List is certainly the cornerstone for building a Personal Health Care Record (PHR) for yourself or for your aging parents.  Once you have the list be sure to share it with your geriatrician and other health providers involved in the health situation.

Next you can begin to build a more compete PHR.  My Health Care Manager includes a number of items in our Member Notebook for easy reference by our senior clients and their families.  Some of the key items included in the notebook are as follows:
  • Important names and numbers for physicians and other health care providers as well as emergency contacts.
  • Heath Record Summary including medical conditions; key physicians; existence of important legal documents like Health Care Power of Attorney, Living Will, etc.; recent hospitalizations; and primary contact information.
  • Legal and insurance detail identifying advance directives, dates, locations, legal representatives, end of life arrangements, Insurance policy information, and so on.
  • Health provider details listing each physician, specialty, diagnosis, treatment plan, and key procedures.
Of course this information doesn't have to be kept in a notebook, but it should be kept in something easily located.