Living alone after a stroke is possible for many people, but the question their family asks first is whether it is safe. The honest answer is that it depends, and that it can change. Some...
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Domestic Support in Tring: When the Thursday Shop Is Only Part of It
Ask a Tring family what they have arranged for an older relative and the answer is usually the shop. There is a fortnightly community trip to the supermarket. A son or daughter calls in at...
Aphasia After a Stroke: How to Help Someone Communicate at Home
Aphasia after stroke is a difficulty with language, not with intelligence. The person usually knows what they want to say, and may understand more than they can show, but the words will...
Home Care in Benslow and Walsworth: Two Hitchin Neighbourhoods
Home care in Benslow is a different conversation from home care in the rest of Hitchin, and Walsworth, on the far side of town, is different again. The two neighbourhoods sit either side...
End of Life Care at Home in Potters Bar: When the Family Lives Away
End of life care at home in Potters Bar is often arranged by someone who is not in Potters Bar. A daughter in central London, a son abroad, a sister two hours up the motorway: the person...
Medication Support at Home in Tring: The Pill Organiser Question
Medication support at home in Tring often starts with a plastic box. A weekly pill organiser sits on the table, someone in the family has filled it, and everyone wants to know whether that...
Domestic Support in Shenley: Help for a Village of Two Ends
Domestic support in Shenley often begins with an errand rather than a chore. The shops, the post office and the surgeries sit at different ends of the village, so a simple shopping trip...
Danesbury Neurological Centre: What It Offers and Coming Home After
Danesbury Neurological Centre in Welwyn is the base of Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust's specialist neurological rehabilitation service. Its community team has specialist pathways for...
FND Respite Care: A Proper Break for the Family Carer
FND respite care gives the family carer of someone with functional neurological disorder a proper break, without the person having to leave home. It can be a regular long sit, a run of...