The invention relates to a care support device (100) characterized by: an image output device (102) which is designed to display symbols (201, . . . , 212; 301, . . . , 312; 401, . . . , 412) which visualize a care procedure; a specification device (103) which is designed to specify symbols to be displayed based on a target care procedure; a detection unit (104) which is designed to detect a user input and to assign displayed symbols to an actual care procedure based on the user input; and an image generation device (105) which is designed to generate symbols which visualize the actual care procedure, wherein the image output device (102) can simultaneously display symbols which visualize the target care procedure and symbols which visualize the actual care procedure.