When someone comes home after a stroke, the small questions arrive before breakfast. Here is how families can make the house safer, follow the care plan and support recovery without losing ordinary life.

She said no. Not angrily, which would almost be easier. Why families lose this argument by making the case better, what to say instead, and what you can still do if the answer stays no.

Somebody in your family collected a prescription twenty-six times last year, and nobody else knows. Why the care of a parent almost always lands on one person, and how to divide it without it turning into an argument.

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.

It is one of the hardest decisions a family makes, and it usually arrives at a difficult moment. A parent has a fall. A diagnosis lands. Someone asks the question everyone has been dreading: should we look at a care home, or can we keep her at home? Here is an honest comparison to help you decide, without pretending one is always better.