This site is about transitions, and here is the one families dread naming: the move into residential care. It gets planned in whispers and executed in guilt, which is precisely backwards, because handled openly...
Of all the transitions this site covers, here’s one that arrives late in family life and gets almost no preparation literature: the week a carer moves in. Live-in care keeps a person in their...
There’s a life stage with no good name that arrives without ceremony: your children still need you, your parents start to need you, and your employer continues to expect you at nine. The people...
The conversation about what to do after school still runs on tramlines: university, apprenticeship, or “something in an office”. Care work rarely gets a mention, and when it does it’s usually framed as a...
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