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Articles
Reading around the questions.
Shorter pieces on what changes in a parent’s life, written to the same standard as the guides, and held to the same limits.
Newest first
Everything published, newest first.
Each piece carries one department and one subject. The subject says what is changing; the department says which question it belongs to.
- Keeping up with a parent's life from far away, and whose news it is to shareWhat Irish guidance and an Ontario home care organisation say about asking a person's consent before their information is shared, and a UK charity's view that newer forms of help for older people should not be seen as a substitute for human contact.Family and consentFrom far away
- Who your parent names as next of kin, and what that does not meanInformation from Ireland and England describes next of kin as someone a person chooses, who need not be a relative. What being named should mean, and why it is not the same as deciding for them.Family and consentFrom far away
- Before anything new comes into a parent's home, whose decision it isWhatever is being suggested, the starting point is your parent's say. How families can raise it, listen, and leave the decision where it belongs.Family and consentThe conversation
- How information moves between hospital and home careWhen a parent comes home from hospital, information has to travel with them. What guidance in some places says should be passed on, and to whom, and what you and your parent can ask before and after discharge.Providers and the systemGetting help
- What checks a carer may go throughBefore a paid carer comes to the door, an agency may check a few things. The kinds of checks that exist, and how you and your parent can ask about them.Providers and the systemGetting help
- What you can ask about your parent's care recordsWhat home care guidance and privacy regulators in some places say about your parent's care records, including asking to see what is held and to have it corrected. What you and your parent can ask, and who to ask.Providers and the systemGetting help
Browse by subject
What is changing, in ten subjects.
Each subject is something families notice in a parent’s life.
- Moving around and fallsStairs, steps, getting up from a chair, and the small changes in how a parent moves through the house.
- Eating, weight and daily routineMeals, appetite, weight, sleep and the shape of an ordinary day.
- Loneliness and staying connectedCompany, conversation and the quiet that can settle into a house.
- Money, benefits and paperworkBills, benefits, documents and the admin that gathers around care.
- Providers and the care systemWho provides help at home, how it is arranged, and how the system works where your parent lives.
- Family, independence and consentWho decides, who is asked, and how a family shares the weight without taking over.
- Memory and thinkingWhen remembering, finding words or keeping track starts to feel different from before.
- The home itselfThe house as a place to live in: light, warmth, clutter, repairs and what it asks of the person in it.
- Emergencies and urgent helpThe moments that cannot wait, and how to reach the right people.
- Monitoring and technologyWhat a family can and cannot know from a distance, and the questions to ask before agreeing to any of it.
Browse by department
The nine questions, read through articles.
Counts here are articles only; each department’s guides are on its own page.
Is my parent still safe at home?What a change at home can reasonably tell you, and what it cannot.
Caring from far awayStaying genuinely useful when you are not in the room.
Starting the conversationHow families raise a difficult subject without losing the person.
Getting help at homeChoosing, arranging and reviewing support that comes to the door.
Looking after yourselfThe carer is part of the arrangement, not an afterthought to it.
Living well at homeKeeping an ordinary life ordinary for as long as it can be.
Paying for careWhat public funding for help at home covers, where it stops, and how families talk about money.
How the care system works where you areWhere the public route to help at home starts, what an assessment is, and how decisions can be questioned, market by market.
How technology helps families stay informedA restrained look at what remote information can and cannot tell a family.
For care providersPractice guides for people who run home care services: planning visits, keeping the same carers with the same people, routes, keeping families informed and care records.
How we source
Carefulness, made visible.
Named, not counted
Each piece names its sources and tags each one Primary or Secondary. It never counts sources at you.
Under-claiming on purpose
Where no authority sets a threshold, we say so rather than inventing one.
Naming the limit
Every piece names where its authority ends, and who to ask instead.