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Crisis Plan

Because crisis situations can occur very quickly and when we least expect them, it is important to have a crisis plan prepared and ready to use. Your crisis plan should be developed by you and your loved one, together. You should include at least the following decisions and information:

  • Whose help and participation you'll need
  • What to do with any other loved ones or children in the house
  • Step-by-step process to follow based on how severe the symptoms are
  • One location where you will keep all the information you have about your loved one that can be accessed quickly

1. Who are your emergency resources (Name, Phone and Cell Phone)? Who would be your backup resources?

2. Who would be your backup resources (Name, Phone and Cell Phone)?

3. What is your physician's contact information (Name, Phone, Office Location)?

4. If you need help from professionals, how will your other loved ones be cared for?

5. If you need help from professionals, what steps will you need to follow?

Relapse Plan

The final part of preparing for a crisis is developing a relapse plan. The symptoms of these conditions tend to reappear even if things have gone well for months and nothing else seems to have changed. This reappearance of symptoms is called a relapse, and a relapse plan helps you prepare for that experience.

A relapse plan is similar to a crisis plan in some ways. You develop it with your loved one, as much as possible, and you decide on the steps you’ll take if symptoms of the illness start to reappear, before they become serious.

1. How do we (the caregivers) know that you (the loved one) are getting sick again? (List signs and symptoms of relapse)

2. When the first symptom listed appears, we will do the following:

3. When the second symptom listed appears, we will do the following:

4. When the third symptom listed appears, we will do the following:

5. When will we think about going to the hospital? What kind of behavior would make us consider doing this?

6. When will we think about calling the police? What type of behavior would make us consider doing this?

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