A house in Grand Gaube built in 1978 for six people now holds one. In 1972 one Mauritian in seventeen was over 60. Today it is one in five. What that means for families deciding how to care for a parent.

At eleven at night, a woman in London searches for how to arrange care for her mother in Goodlands. The first result tells her to contact her local council. Six ways advice written for other countries does not apply here, and why we wrote our own.