Older adults
When you support an older adult who needs more help
If you are helping an older adult stay safe, well, and themselves, the planning rarely stops, and your own life can quietly shrink around it. TIWANI is built to help you keep the planning in one place.
It is private and non-clinical. It helps you prepare and share, it suggests rather than instructs, and it points you to trusted UK organisations for the support you and they are entitled to.
How TIWANI helps
Prepare for the appointments and changes
Turn what you know about the person you support into a short plan for the things that take real planning: a hospital appointment, a change of routine, a visit from a new carer. Suggestions only; you decide what fits.
One clear page for everyone who helps
A Continuity Card hands a relative, a respite carer, or a care worker the essentials at a glance: what helps, what to avoid, and what matters to the person. No personal data travels in the link.
Notice when your own life narrows
Caring for an older adult can quietly take over. Quick check-ins build a private signal of whether your own life is holding, so a steady squeeze is easier to spot.
Pointed toward the right support, sooner
When an area has been under strain, a gentle heads-up points you to organisations like Carers UK and Age UK, and to your council's adult social care. It signposts, never instructs.
Trusted information and support
TIWANI is not the source of this guidance, these organisations are. Each link opens an official or established UK service in a new tab.
Care and support
- NHS: social care and support guideWhere to start with care at home, in the community, or in a care home, and how to pay for it.(opens in a new tab)
- GOV.UK: apply for a needs assessment by social servicesThe free assessment that decides what care and support your council can arrange.(opens in a new tab)
- Care Quality Commission (CQC)Check inspection ratings for care homes and home-care services in England.(opens in a new tab)
Money and carer support
- GOV.UK: Carer's AllowanceThe main benefit for people who spend a substantial amount of time caring for someone.(opens in a new tab)
- GOV.UK: Attendance AllowanceHelp with extra costs for people over State Pension age who need help with personal care.(opens in a new tab)
- Carers UKExpert advice, information, and support for unpaid carers across the UK.(opens in a new tab)
Information and community
- Age UKInformation, advice, and local services for older people and those who support them.(opens in a new tab)
- Alzheimer's SocietySupport and information for anyone affected by dementia.(opens in a new tab)
- Dementia UK (Admiral Nurses)Specialist dementia nurses and a free Helpline for families facing dementia.(opens in a new tab)
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Help us build TIWANI
TIWANI is built by a small team for families who carry more than their share. If you would like to help us keep building it, you can register your interest in supporting our work. Donations are not open yet, and we will be clear about how any support is used.