When Home Care Is Needed for More Than Aging
A practical guide for families considering home care after a diagnosis, injury, hospital stay, disability, or change in the support a loved one needs.
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Complex Care Guides
Plain-language guidance for families supporting a loved one with a serious condition, injury, disability, or changing care needs at home.
Heart Failure Home Care: Support for the Days That Change
How families can make daily routines more manageable when heart failure brings fatigue, shortness of breath, appointments, and changing support needs.
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COPD Home Care: Making the Day Easier When Breathing Is Hard
A practical guide for families supporting someone with COPD through fatigue, changing routines, appointments, and a plan for hard days.
Read article →Vascular Dementia Home Care: Support for Changing Routines
How families can support a loved one with vascular dementia through changing memory, planning, safety, and everyday routines at home.
Read article →Frontotemporal Dementia Home Care: When Behaviour and Language Change
A compassionate guide for families supporting a loved one with frontotemporal dementia through changing behaviour, communication, routines, and safety.
Read article →Kidney Disease and Dialysis Home Care: Planning Around Treatment Days
How families can make daily routines more manageable when kidney disease and dialysis appointments shape the week.
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Parkinson’s Disease Home Care: Support for the Hours That Matter
Practical support for families managing movement changes, daily routines, and changing care needs with Parkinson’s disease.
Read article →Atypical Parkinsonism Home Care: Planning for PSP and MSA
How families can plan practical support at home when progressive supranuclear palsy or multiple system atrophy changes balance, communication, and daily routines.
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Coming Home After a Stroke: What Recovery at Home Can Look Like
Practical support for families adjusting to daily life, appointments, communication changes, and recovery after a stroke.
Read article →Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Home Care: When the Diagnosis Comes in Mid-Life
Support for families managing work, children, changing routines, and care needs when Alzheimer’s begins before age 65.
Read article →Lewy Body Dementia Home Care: Support for Good Days and Hard Ones
How families can respond calmly to changing alertness, movement, hallucinations, sleep changes, and safety needs at home.
Read article →Multiple Sclerosis Home Care: Help That Flexes With Changing Weeks
Practical support for people and families managing fatigue, relapses, mobility, work, and changing routines with multiple sclerosis.
Read article →Living With ALS at Home: Care That Keeps Pace With Change
Practical guidance for people and families planning personal support, communication, equipment, and changing care needs with ALS.
Read article →Cerebral Palsy in Adulthood: Home Care When Family Help Changes
Support for adults with cerebral palsy and their families as transfers, routines, caregiver health, and long-term planning change.
Read article →Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: Caring at Home After a Brain Bleed
Practical guidance for families managing safety, changing routines, and urgent warning signs after a cerebral amyloid angiopathy diagnosis.
Read article →Huntington’s Disease at Home: Care for Movement, Mood, and Family
How practical home support can help people and families navigate changing movement, eating, routines, mood, and supervision needs with Huntington’s disease.
Read article →After a Brain Injury: Home Care for Recovery and Lasting Change
Practical support for adults and families managing routines, judgment, fatigue, behavior changes, and recovery after a traumatic brain injury.
Read article →Living at Home After a Spinal Cord Injury: Personal Care Done Your Way
Support for people and families managing personal routines, transfers, skin care, equipment, and independent life after a spinal cord injury.
Read article →Alzheimer’s Disease Home Care: Planning for Each Stage
How support at home changes as Alzheimer’s moves from mild to moderate to severe, and what the family can arrange before each change.
Read article →Sudden Confusion in an Older Adult: Delirium and What to Do Today
Why confusion that appears over hours or days needs a call to the clinician the same day, and what the family can tell them.
Read article →Diabetes Home Care: Support for Meals, Medicines, and Low Blood Sugar
How families and caregivers can support an older adult with diabetes at home, and what to do when blood sugar drops.
Read article →Cancer Treatment at Home: Planning Around Treatment Days
How families can arrange rides, meals, rest, and infection precautions around chemotherapy, radiation, or other treatment.
Read article →Low Vision and Macular Degeneration: Making Home Work Again
What macular degeneration does to sight, which changes need a call to the eye doctor, and how to set up the home for a person who cannot see detail.
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