Caring for an older parent or a loved one who needs help — daily routines, dementia, falls, medication, care homes, costs, respite and looking after yourself. Type your worry, get a kind straight answer in seconds. The full detailed report costs less than a cup of coffee: $2.95.
Carers routinely underestimate their weekly hours by a third — the driving, the phone calls, the worrying all count, but none of it is logged anywhere. This calculator adds your care hours, paid work and sleep against the 168 hours everyone gets, and shows the free hours actually left for you. The number is often the wake-up call — and the evidence that makes family and services take your need for help seriously.
See your real weekly commitment — care hours plus work plus sleep — and how many free hours are actually left for you.
Because sustained free time under about three hours a day is a recognised burnout zone. When you can show family or services the actual arithmetic — 'I have 1.8 free hours a day' — requests for help stop sounding like complaints and start sounding like facts.
Everything you do because of their needs: hands-on help, but also driving to appointments, organising medicines, phone calls to providers, paperwork and even the hours you are 'on call'. If it would not happen without you, it counts.
Good enough to plan with. If you have not tracked before, keep a rough log for one week and re-run the calculator — most people's estimate rises, not falls. The trend over months matters more than one perfect figure.
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