Planning everyday life
Build a monthly schedule
Arrange family commitments and support activities to plan a manageable month.
Gamification Training
Supporting children with medical care needs.Learning through experience.
A team-based workshop using digital games and board activities to explore family life and interprofessional collaboration.
Who it is forHealthcare, social care, local government and education
FormatIn-person, team-based workshop
MaterialsiPads, boards and cards
Team sizeAround 5–8 participants per team
Official Video
See Care Labo in action
Our official video offers a glimpse of the workshop and shows how teams discuss and explore a family's everyday life.
Overview
A month in a family's life.Explore it as a support team.
For children with ongoing medical care needs and their families, everyday life brings together hospital visits, household tasks, siblings, work, rest and connections with the community.
Participants become a support team, using schedules, events, tokens and mini-games to identify changes in the family's daily life.
They learn to recognise subtle concerns as signs that support may be needed.
Program Flow
How the workshop works
1
Getting started
Meet the family through an introductory video, then agree on your team's goals and roles.
2
Mapping daily life
Build monthly, 24-hour and weekly schedules to understand the rhythm of the family's life.
3
Responding to events
Work together to respond to everyday events, such as fever, suctioning needs, hospital visits and family fatigue.
4
Team meetings and mini-games
Bring together different professional perspectives to consider practical support options.
5
Reflection and sharing
Reflect on changes in the family's life and the tokens, and share insights to guide future support.
Game Experiences
Explore the many ways to support a family
From planning family schedules to connecting with community resources, preparing for outings and providing medical care, each role offers a different perspective on family life.
Support team meeting
Share information with families and clinicians
Review the family's circumstances and points for discussion, then plan the next steps together.
Public health nursing
Connect with community support
Identify local resources and places the family can turn to, and consider ways to prevent isolation.
Care coordination
Identify everyday support needs
Listen carefully to the family's difficulties at home and plan the support they need.
Home-based rehabilitation
Prepare for a safe outing
Review the transfer process and items to bring, and explore practical ways to help the family go out.
Home-visit nursing
Practise responding to medical care needs
Use a simulator to review decisions and procedures relevant to care, including emergency situations.
Each scenario offers a different way to learn: discussion, choices, arranging items or simulation.
Participant Feedback
What participants told us
In a post-workshop survey conducted in July 2026 (27 respondents), participants particularly valued interprofessional dialogue and learning to understand family life as a support team.
Source: Post-workshop survey, July 2026; 27 respondents.
Learning Focus01 02 03 04
Four perspectives to take into practice
Start with everyday life
Look beyond medical care to consider how support fits into a family's day and month.
Recognise signs of change
Use tokens and events to recognise changes in the family's burden and available capacity.
Plan support together
Combine different areas of expertise and discuss who can provide the support the family needs.
Apply learning in practice
Turn insights from reflection into ideas you can use in your everyday work.
Training Information
Who it is for and how we tailor it
Where it fits
Suitable for interprofessional training in healthcare, social care, local government and education for those supporting children with ongoing medical care needs, as well as introductory training in home-based support for children.
Designed around your goals
With around 5–8 participants per team, we adapt the content, materials and group composition to your learning goals and available time.
Tell us aboutyour training needs.
You are welcome to get in touch even if your audience or training goals are still taking shape.