Understanding care
Recognising when a loved one may need help at home
The everyday changes that suggest someone could use support, and how to raise it kindly.
Resources
Guides for families
Practical guides for the questions families ask most, whether you're caring for someone yourself, arranging help from abroad or deciding what to do next. They're useful whether or not you choose Sehlam.
Each guide is written for families, in plain language. They explain what to look for, what questions to ask and what to expect, without assuming you know the jargon.
Guides that touch on health, such as medicines, dementia or recovery after hospital, are general information only. They are reviewed by an authorised health professional before they are published, and they are never a substitute for advice from the person's own doctor. If you're worried about someone's health right now, contact their doctor, and in an emergency call 112.
Understanding the situation
When something has changed for a parent or relative, these guides help you make sense of it and think about what kind of support might help.
Understanding care
Preparing a home for a return from hospital
What to ask before discharge and how to get the home ready for the first days back.
Understanding care
Everyday home-safety questions for families
Room-by-room questions that help families spot common causes of falls and accidents at home.
Understanding care
Medication reminders and nursing administration: the difference
Why a reminder and a nurse giving medicines are different services, and how to keep medicines safe at home.
Understanding care
Supporting a relative living with dementia
Routines, communication, safety and family wellbeing when someone you love is living with dementia.
Understanding care
Planning a sustainable break for a family caregiver
Why carers need planned breaks, the kinds of cover available, and how to hand over well.
Choosing and arranging care
For families who are ready to look at options: how arrangements differ, what an assessment involves, what affects cost and how to organise care from another country.
Choosing care
Live-in or visiting care: questions to help you choose
Eight questions about nights, safety, routine, space and family support that point towards one arrangement or the other.
Choosing care
Arranging care in Ghana while living abroad
Consent, updates, time zones, money and the practical steps for organising care from another country.
Choosing care
What happens during a home care assessment?
Who visits, what they ask about, how to prepare, and what you receive afterwards.
Choosing care
What affects the cost of care at home?
The main things that shape a home care quote, and how to plan a budget that lasts.
Talk to us about care at home
Tell us a little about the situation and we'll call you back to talk it through. Sending a request doesn't commit you to anything.