Editorial guides
Practical articles, checklists and explanations built around Italian care homes, urgent placement, waiting lists and home-care decisions.
Featured guide
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.
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.
Admissions in Italy stall on paperwork more often than on beds. Here is the full list, which documents have to exist before you are even assessed, and the two that take months to obtain if you start late.
A fall, a stroke, a hospital discharge in four days. Italy has fast routes that families abroad never hear about — but only if you ask for them by name, and only if you ask the right person on day one.
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.
Monthly fees for RSA and rest homes across Italy, what the fee includes, the public subsidies that exist, and how to pay from abroad.
