App to co-ordinate help for critically ill colleague

[MammaRoly]

Can anyone recommend an app to co-ordinate visits, offers of transport, meals etc for a dear colleague who has been struck down critically unwell very suddenly? Everyone has the best of intentions but we run the risk the doubling up or duplicating in our eagerness to help

Mealtrain is very good for meals.

Look at shared calendar apps?

Wishing them well

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Can I ask, are you not speaking to their family and taking their lead for this kind of thing?

You sound like absolutely wonderful work mates btw.

Thanks for the replies so far. I don't want to share too many details but our colleague has very few family members who also don't drive which is why many of us have offered them lifts or offered to visit ourselves.

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WhatsApp, but keep messages short

TimeTree can be shared with multiple users, we use it across our family

What a brilliant friend you are. Notion is great for this, I use it in work to coordinate my team who all work remotely.

I'd say a shared calendar or visual app rather than reams of WhatsApp messages In which things will get lost. Maybe just a simple outlook calendar? Keep it to basics

You could link a rota from a WhatsApp group - remind people to only give/do what they can
Get the person linked in with other sources of help for when help dries up

Please consider if it's what they actually want. I had a very well meaning friend do something similar for me and o was mortified. Absolutely not what I wanted.

Ask them how they can help practically.

I found dog walking , was the most useful thing they could do for me I really didn't want offers to clean my house. Bring food round. I wanted just eats so I could choose what o fancied on the day or actually to go out for food as a break from my house. I definitely do not want a pity party

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