Our care & retirement living blog

Finding a care home is a daunting prospect and a situation that requires organisation, patience and a great deal of emotional strength.

In this blog we will attempt to answer this question and some of the many others that get put to us regularly on the Autumna elderly care advice line.

A question that the Autumna Advice Line is fielding on a more regular basis during the COVID-19 outbreak, concerns Living Wills - or Advance Decisions - and how to make them so that they are recognised legally. This blog gives a brief overview but will then link to solicitors, Parfitt Cresswell, for the detail.

Autumna give 5 top tips for choosing a care home without being able to actually step inside whilst the country is locked down during the COVID-19 pandemic

Debbie Harris writes in Living Magazine about planning your later life care.

After a lifetime of looking after yourself it’s often hard to accept you may need help.

Respite care provides a short stay in a care home that provides ‘respite’ from caring responsibilities for a carer.

According to a recent front page article in the Daily Mail, some of us are embroiled in a scandal that costs us £21,000 a year.

But it does depend on interpretation … and understanding the facts. 

'After a lifetime of planning ahead and being sensible, my mother, the most risk-averse person I have ever met, has now decided to gamble with her own well-being.'