Observations. Evidence. Ideas.
News, observations, and practical ideas for people who support care. Explore what is changing and what it means for your community.
Explore the research behind our workStart with a topic or a few words, or leave search blank to browse.
Search looks through titles, summaries, authors, and article text. With several words, each word must appear somewhere in the article.
Choose a theme to see its articles straight away. Your applied search and filters stay in place. Choose All themes to explore across themes.
For a closer match, open More filters and choose a setting, reader role, or article type, then select Apply filters. You can also enter words and choose Find articles. Results must match every option you choose. Leave an option set to All to keep that part open.
An article can belong to more than one theme. Explore what each covers and why we write about it.
Find articles relevant to a community, care setting, or organization. These options include people and partners as well as places:
Choose a perspective that interests you. You can read from any role:
No matches? Try fewer words or remove a filter. Clear filters clears your search and all selected options.
224 articles · Page 16 of 19
Sometimes the person we would like to see is someone we already know. Research on reconnecting prompts a reflection on an ordinary first message, a comfortable invitation and room for the other person to choose.
High smartphone ownership does not mean every visitor has the device, connection, or private space a service assumes. Pew’s 2024 findings prompt a practical look at shared access and follow-up.
A federal rule aims to simplify Medicaid and related enrollment processes. The practical test is whether an applicant can understand the request, provide what is needed, and move forward without avoidable repetition.
A helpful supporter is someone the person has chosen to involve. Established NICE guidance prompts teams to ask who should join a care conversation, what role they will play and when that choice needs checking again.
A recurring meeting earns its time when people know what was decided and who will take the next step. Review the purpose, the people needed, and the work left after the discussion.
A delivered request can still be waiting for someone to accept it. A distinction in HL7’s task definitions helps teams examine the human agreement behind a connected workflow.
NIA’s guidance starts with asking the older person directly. Our perspective: an early conversation works better when it names one observation, listens to what matters and leaves room for a next step chosen together.
Volunteering can start with an interest and a manageable offer of time. Civic-life research prompts our reflection on clearer roles, flexible commitments and contributions shaped by the person.
A welcome pack cannot answer every question that appears on a first shift. Practical onboarding includes supported practice, a clear person to ask, and time to find out what is still unfamiliar.
NIA’s long-distance caregiving guidance shows that support is not limited to the people who live nearby. Our takeaway: agree on one useful responsibility, including the follow-through, before adding more messages to the local caregiver’s day.
A care plan can describe many tasks without explaining what the person hopes to regain or keep doing. NICE’s guidance on personalized goals invites teams to connect everyday support with a goal the person recognizes as their own.
Libraries, parks and community rooms can offer room for everyday connection. We look beyond free admission to the practical details that make spending time there possible.
