Care Equipment Inventory

What this sheet is for

When caring for an elderly parent or a recovering patient at home, equipment gaps are easy to miss until something goes wrong. This sheet gives you a structured snapshot of every major device category — mobility, hygiene, safety, and comfort — so you can walk through the home room by room and know exactly what is in service, what is broken, and what still needs to be sourced or hired.

How to use it

Start with Mobility and Transfer and tick 'Have' for any item already in the home. Leave 'Need' blank for now and come back to it once you have checked all four sections. Work through Hygiene and Skin Care, then Safety and Fall Prevention, marking both columns honestly. Finish with Comfort and Rest. Use the Repairs and Follow-ups notes box at the foot to record items that are present but damaged, out of adjustment, or awaiting a service call. Date the sheet at the top right so you know when it was last reviewed.

What is printed on the page

“Care Equipment Inventory” is laid out as grouped sections: four boxed groups in a 2 × 2 grid, each headed and holding six pre-filled items with 'have' and 'need' columns, and a notes box at the foot. Under the title it reads “Track mobility aids, hygiene tools, safety devices, and comfort items in one place.”, and the line at the foot of the page says “Review this sheet each month and before any hospital discharge, when equipment needs change quickly.”.

The group labels slot holds four entries — “Mobility & Transfer”, “Hygiene & Skin Care”, “Safety & Fall Prevention” and “Comfort & Rest” — so the sheet is already filled in for caregiving rather than left as blank rows to label yourself.

The group 1 items slot holds six entries — “Rollator / walking frame”, “Wheelchair (manual)”, “Transfer / gait belt”, “Bed rail (half-length)”, “Slide sheet or board” and “Crutches or cane” — so the sheet is already filled in for caregiving rather than left as blank rows to label yourself.

The group 2 items slot holds six entries — “Shower chair or bench”, “Handheld shower head”, “Raised toilet seat”, “Long-handled bath sponge”, “Disposable wash gloves” and “Pressure-relief cushion” — so the sheet is already filled in for caregiving rather than left as blank rows to label yourself.

The group 3 items slot holds six entries — “Grab bar (shower/bath)”, “Grab bar (toilet area)”, “Non-slip bath mat”, “Non-slip floor mat (hall)”, “Bed alarm / sensor pad” and “Nightlight (plug-in)” — so the sheet is already filled in for caregiving rather than left as blank rows to label yourself.

The group 4 items slot holds six entries — “Pressure-relief mattress”, “Bed wedge / bolster”, “Overbed table”, “Call bell or intercom”, “Lap blanket” and “Recliner or lift chair” — so the sheet is already filled in for caregiving rather than left as blank rows to label yourself.

The column headings slot holds two entries — “Have” and “Need” — so the sheet is already filled in for caregiving rather than left as blank rows to label yourself.

The remaining labels on “Care Equipment Inventory”, the caregiving sheet, are “Last checked:” for the date label and “Repairs & Follow-ups” for the notes heading.

Two things about this particular grouped sections are settings rather than text, and “Care Equipment Inventory” has them set like this. Notes box is on: include the notes box at the foot. Qty column is off: add a third narrow 'Qty' column to each group.

Tips

Bring this sheet to every occupational therapist or discharge-planning meeting so recommendations can be checked against what you already have.

Mark hired or borrowed items separately in pencil; they may need to be returned when the care situation changes.

Note the brand and model of any item in the repairs box — you will need it when calling a supplier for spare parts or servicing.

The other layouts in this set

“Care Equipment Inventory” is one of three sheets in this set, each a different fixed layout filled for the same topic. “Home Care Supplies Inventory” uses the item table layout and “Care Team Contacts Inventory” uses the blank grid with legend layout. Pick by how you work: the layout decides how much you write and where, not what the sheet is about.