Appointment card maker

How it works

The card is for a client who finds reading harder, or who quickly forgets an appointment. It shows what kind of appointment it is, when, where, with whom and what to bring. Each part has a picture and a word, in large letters. You see the card as it comes out of the printer: on a large screen while you fill it in, on a phone at the last step.

1. Choose what kind of appointment it is: GP, neighbourhood team (wijkteam), dentist, council (gemeente), work, school, home visit, or a phone or video call. Each kind has its own picture.
2. Fill in the date and the time. The card shows the date in words, for example ‘Tuesday 6 October’. Does your client need to leave on time? Then also fill in what time they need to leave.
3. Write where the appointment is and with whom. Is someone coming to your client's home? Tick that, and the card will say ‘At your home’.
4. Tick what your client needs to bring: proof of ID, health insurance card, the letter, medicines or phone.
5. Check that the card is correct and press ‘Print’. The card is the size of a postcard (A6) and is printed on A4. Cut it out along the dotted line.

Good to know

• Go through the card together. Read it out loud and point to the pictures.
• Agree where the card will hang or lie, for example on the fridge or next to the keys.
• One card is one appointment. If your client has more, make a separate card for each appointment.
• You can print as soon as the kind of appointment, the date and the time are filled in. The rest can stay empty.
• The card is small. A long address or a long name sometimes does not fit. Then you will see a message and the card will not print. Make the address or the name shorter, or tick fewer things.
• No printer to hand? Choose ‘Save as PDF’ in the print window and print the card later.

By hand

Does filling it in not work? Then make the card yourself, on a small card or half an A5 sheet. Write large and clearly, one below the other:

• what kind of appointment it is, with a simple picture next to it;
• the day and the date in words, for example ‘Tuesday 6 October’;
• what time the appointment starts, and what time your client needs to leave;
• where it is, and with whom;
• what your client needs to bring.