Care
How can you find helpful, reliable and appropriate care for your parent, wherever they choose to live?
What to Do if You Suspect Improper Care for Your Parents in a Nursing Home
Collaborative Post Visiting your aging parents at a nursing home should feel comforting. However, if you notice unexplained bruises or a look of sadness that doesn’t match their usual spirit, it can be troubling. Your parents might not speak up about anything bad happening in their nursing home. They could be afraid or unsure how […]
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The Ultimate Guide to Luxury Senior Living Communities in Pennsylvania
Collaborative Post Choosing a senior living community is a big decision with many factors to consider. Comfort, care and safety are the top priorities. Communities offer a range of different amenities and lifestyle options – some focus on independent living, while others focus on memory care or personal care. Location also affects convenience and daily […]
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When Being Brave Means Asking for Help Sooner
Collaborative Post Every day life can slip into chaos without much warning when someone is looking after an older parent or spouse. You’re folding clothes one moment. The next time you are trying to remember which appointment letter belongs to which clinic, and wondering why every medication box looks the same. In the middle of […]
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What’s the effect of voluntary caring on people in the UK?
In its latest report on the state of caring in the UK, Carers UK has identified many challenges facing carers across their lives – both while caring and into the future. We summarise the costs of caring here in terms of financial, physical and mental impact. You may recognise yourself here. If so, the study […]
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What is DoLS, what are its challenges and how is it due to change?
The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) is part of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. It exists to protect people who cannot make certain decisions for themselves – often because of dementia, learning disabilities, or brain injury – and who need to be kept safe in a care home or hospital. If a person is under […]
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Designing a Calm, Functional Kitchen for your Multi-Generational Home
Collaborative Post More families in the UK are embracing multi-generational living – grandparents moving in with adult children, young adults staying longer at home, or even three generations under one roof. This means that the kitchen inevitably becomes the busiest spot in the house, where everything from breakfast to birthday cakes is prepared, but you […]
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Caring for Ageing Parents: What Families Need to Know About Care Options
Across the UK, many families – often adult children – are quietly taking on the full-time care of their ageing parents. New research from Noble Live-In Care highlights the huge personal cost this devotion can bring: exhaustion, poor mental health, financial strain, and carers feeling they must manage alone. Yet families do have options. Whether […]
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Ensuring Scotland’s care home residents stay connected
On 22 July 2025, Anne’s Law became legislation as part of the Care Reform (Scotland) Act 2025, ensuring people living in care homes can stay connected with their loved ones, even during exceptional circumstances such as infectious outbreaks. The next step is to develop the Regulations and Code of Practice, which will set out how the […]
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Make your voice heard as a carer – complete the UK State of Caring survey
Carers UK has launched this year’s State of Caring survey. The annual State of Caring survey is the most extensive survey into unpaid carers’ experiences in the UK. It is used as a vital source of evidence not only by Carers UK, but by many other organisations including Government, local authorities, health and social care services, […]
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CCTV in care home bedrooms in the UK – yes or no?
Moving to a care home can be a positive choice for those who are struggling to live independently at home. It can throw up worries for family and friends though. We are trusting an unknown organisation and its unfamiliar employees to care for our relative with compassion and dignity. Sometimes concerns arise about whether our […]
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