Guides for families looking after an ageing parent

Practical, plain-English guides, written and reviewed by our care team for information only. Nothing here is medical advice; always check anything specific with your parent's doctor or pharmacist.

• Prescription abbreviations, decoded

  OD, BD, TDS, HS, SOS and the rest of the shorthand doctors write on an Indian prescription: what each one means in plain English, nothing more.

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• Managing a parent's medicines from abroad

  What to set up before you fly home, how to share the load with siblings, and the questions worth asking at your parent's next doctor's visit, for adult children managing care from another country.

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