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.
Two Italian benefits worth claiming, paid regardless of income, and routinely missed because nobody mentions them. What they are, who files, and the timeline.
Public places, private places and convenzionato beds are three different queues with three different rules. Which one your parent is in decides how long you wait.
Living in London, Toronto or Sydney with a parent in Italy. Which steps work by email, which need someone physically present, and how to organise one trip well.
The health record, the ID papers, the financial documents and the legal authority. What each one is, who signs it, how long it takes and what expires.
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.
A call from Italy, a discharge date in five days, and you are in London, New York or Sydney. What can actually be arranged from a distance: dimissioni protette, the ward's social worker, the RSA application route, and a badante as an interim bridge.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
