Editorial guides
Practical articles, checklists and explanations built around Italian care homes, urgent placement, waiting lists and home-care decisions.
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Monthly fees for RSA and rest homes across Italy, what the fee includes, the public subsidies that exist, and how to pay from abroad.
The visit is over and you know your parent cannot manage alone another winter — and you live abroad. What to start before you leave, what can be done from another country, and why September is the month that decides how the winter goes.
The brother in Italy is exhausted and wants it settled. You are 2,000 km away, you see it twice a year, and whatever you say lands as interference. Both of you are right, which is why these arguments never resolve on their own. No child has authority over the others under Italian law — and the distance creates a second problem nobody names: who can actually sign. Here is how to split the work so the person abroad stops being a spectator.
What amministratore di sostegno means, how it differs from a simple power of attorney, when a family needs one, and how to start the process from abroad.
What the ISEE is, why it matters even if you live abroad, how it is calculated, and how to get one done for a parent in Italy without being there in person.
A badante costs less than a care home and keeps your parent at home — until the night shifts, the lifting or the dementia make it unsafe. Here is what each really costs, what you take on as an employer, and the four signals that the middle option has ended.
Three things break when you manage Italian care from abroad: paying the home, having the authority to sign anything, and knowing what is actually happening. Each has a specific Italian fix, and none of them is a power of attorney from your own country.
A practical, step-by-step guide for sons and daughters in the US, UK, Canada or Australia who need to arrange residential care for a parent in Italy.
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Monthly fees for RSA and rest homes across Italy, what the fee includes, the public subsidies that exist, and how to pay from abroad.
The word you use decides which waiting list you join, what the state pays, and whether a nurse is on site. Here is what each Italian term actually means, and the two questions that cut through the terminology.
