When an older person you love suddenly needs more help, where do you start?
Suddenly Responsible is for anyone who unexpectedly finds themselves arranging care, appointments, hospital discharge, finances or difficult decisions.
Often, you are an adult son or daughter trying to help a parent. You may instead be a partner, grandchild, niece, nephew, friend or another family member.
You may not think of yourself as a carer. You are simply the person everyone is now turning to.
Suddenly Responsible helps you understand what matters now, what questions to ask and what to do next, without having to work everything out at once.
Start with the kind of help you need today.
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS FOUND THEMSELVES SUDDENLY RESPONSIBLE
When an older person you love suddenly needs more help, where do you start?
Suddenly Responsible is for anyone who unexpectedly finds themselves arranging care, appointments, hospital discharge, finances or difficult decisions for an older person they love. It helps you understand what matters now, what questions to ask and what to do next.
Who needs help right now?
WHEN EVERY QUESTION ARRIVES AT ONCE
Capable people can feel completely bamboozled too.
Feeling overwhelmed in unfamiliar territory does not mean you are failing. You have been dropped into a new system at an emotional time. Suddenly Responsible helps you make it smaller, one clear question and one manageable step at a time.
YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE
This responsibility can look very different.
These fictional stories are based on situations many families face. Choose the situation that feels closest to yours.
Names, portraits and details are fictional composites. They are not customer testimonials.
FIND YOUR STARTING POINT
Where are you in the journey right now?
Tap the note that feels closest. You can change this later.
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YOUR STARTING POINT
Start with what is different
Write down what you have noticed, roughly when it began and what they could normally manage before. A short list of observations is more useful than trying to explain everything at once.
Sudden confusion needs medical attention.If they are in hospital, tell a nurse straight away. If they are at home, contact their GP or NHS 111. Call 999 if there is immediate danger or a life-threatening emergency.
FREE HELP FOR RIGHT NOW
What feels most urgent for you right now?
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MORE IN-DEPTH HELP
For when the questions get harder and the answers more difficult to find.
A £29 one-off payment gives you ongoing access to 22 detailed sections, practical questions, scripts, planners and conversation tools, with future information updates included. There is no subscription.
Self-guided information, not a staffed helpline or emergency service.
Looking after yourself does not require a spa retreat while chaos unfolds on Ward 6. Sometimes it means drinking water and letting someone else send the family update.
