Editorial guides
Practical articles, checklists and explanations built around Italian care homes, urgent placement, waiting lists and home-care decisions.
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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.
Not every care home in Sheffield can safely support dementia. What a specialist dementia unit really is, how to find a secure place fast, who pays, and the questions that separate real dementia care from a label.
Not every care home in Bristol can safely support dementia. What a specialist dementia unit really is, how to find a secure place fast, who pays, and the questions that separate real dementia care from a label.
Not every care home in Manchester can safely support dementia. What a specialist dementia unit really is, how to find a secure place fast, who pays, and the questions that separate real dementia care from a label.
Not every care home in London can safely support dementia. What a specialist dementia unit really is, how to find a secure place fast, who pays, and the questions that separate real dementia care from a label.
Not every care home in Leeds can safely support dementia. What a specialist dementia unit really is, how to find a secure place fast, who pays, and the questions that separate real dementia care from a label.
Not every care home in Birmingham can safely support dementia. What a specialist dementia unit really is, how to find a secure place fast, who pays, and the questions that separate real dementia care from a label.
Whether the council pays for a care home in England depends on a means test: the capital thresholds, whether the house counts, NHS Continuing Healthcare, and what to do when it is urgent and the assessment is not done — explained plainly, with the current figures to confirm with your council.
Wales has one of the most generous capital limits in the UK. How the single-threshold means test works, whether the house counts, NHS Continuing Healthcare, and what to do when it is urgent and the assessment is not done — explained plainly, with the figures to confirm with your council.
In Northern Ireland care is arranged by the HSC Trust, not a council. How the means test works, whether the house counts, fully funded care through the HSC, and what to do when it is urgent and the assessment is not done — explained plainly, with the figures to confirm with your Trust.
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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.
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.
