Advice for families
Plain answers to the questions people ask when they are thinking about a care home: when it is time, what the different kinds of care are, how fees and funding work, and how to choose.
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Choosing a home
20 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Care Home
There’s a particular kind of blankness that happens on a care home visit. You’ve prepared a mental list of things to ask. You walk in, someone…
Choosing a home
What Is Residential Care, and Is It Right for Your Family?
Many families arrive at the idea of residential care gradually, not all at once. A parent starts forgetting to eat properly. A fall that used to…
Choosing a home
What does residential care involve?
What is residential care? Residential care is a place to live where trained staff help with everyday tasks that have become hard to manage at home.…
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Choosing a home
How to Talk to a Parent About Moving Into a Care Home
There’s a conversation many adult children put off for months, sometimes years, before they finally have it: the one about whether it might be time for…
Daily life
A Day in the Life in a Lenore Care Home
Ask someone who’s never set foot in a care home what they imagine a typical day looks like, and you’ll often hear something fairly bleak: rows…
Dementia
What Is Dementia? A Plain-English Guide for Families
The word “dementia” tends to arrive in a family’s life carrying more fear than information. It’s a word people often half-understand: enough to be frightened by…
Choosing a home
20 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Care Home
There’s a particular kind of blankness that happens on a care home visit. You’ve prepared a mental list of things to ask. You walk in, someone…
Choosing a home
What Is Residential Care, and Is It Right for Your Family?
Many families arrive at the idea of residential care gradually, not all at once. A parent starts forgetting to eat properly. A fall that used to…
Choosing a home
What does residential care involve?
What is residential care? Residential care is a place to live where trained staff help with everyday tasks that have become hard to manage at home.…
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