Editorial guides
Practical articles, checklists and explanations built around Italian care homes, urgent placement, waiting lists and home-care decisions.
Featured guide
In most cases it is not a stranger on the phone — it is someone close. The signs, the mistake to avoid when you raise it with her, and the steps that actually stop the money leaving.
Shouting at night, a television until midnight, another resident who walks in and moves her things. Why it matters more than families think, what the regulations actually give you, how to write the request so it works — and when it stops being a compatibility issue.
She has a fever and the home is asking what to do. What a hospital admission really does to a very old person, when it is clearly right, when it is often avoidable, and the form that means you never have to decide this at 2 a.m.
She takes your hand at the door and asks every single time. Why it is almost never about the house, the three answers that make it worse, and how to tell when the request is real and has legal weight.
A short phone call, "a little fall, nothing serious". The questions to ask straight away, what the home must record and report, and why repeated falls mean something else entirely.
From 400 miles or another country you cannot tour ten homes or drop in daily. The local network to build before the crisis, the paperwork to hold, and how to use the visits you do make.
Almost nobody moves into a care home by decision — they move after a fall. The changes in order of effect, what the council pays for, and the signs home is no longer enough.
Clothes that survive an industrial laundry, the paperwork that actually matters, and the one page about her life that is worth more than everything else. Plus the classic first-day mistakes.
A family lunch can be lovely or a disaster, and it turns on things you can prepare. What to arrange first, the medication mistake, and how to handle the return.
