Overview of Guidelines
At ConsidraCare, we’re committed to ensuring the integrity of our content through the following editorial principles, practices, and standards.
Our Mission
Empower caregivers to make the best decisions by providing helpful senior living and home care information.
Key Principles
We focus on creating content that:
- Supports seniors and caregivers. Our content provides helpful information for caregivers and seniors on a wide range of topics, including caregiving, senior health and wellness, senior care options, community information, financial and legal planning, locations’ senior-friendliness, veterans benefits, and more. No matter your caregiving or senior living needs, we have information to serve and support you.
- Is accurate and accessible. We rely on high-quality sources, fact-checking processes, and expert reviews to ensure that the content we create is both well-sourced and easy to understand.
- Earns your trust. We know that transparency is important to you. In order to secure your confidence, we adhere to strict editorial standards that help us ensure that you remain at the center of all our decisions.
Editorial practices and standards
Our editorial practices and standards determine how we source, write, and edit our content. We require:
- Expert and high-quality sources. Our writers use authoritative, primary sources to inform their content. We cite research from leading government, educational, industry, and research institutions. When citing journal publications, we lean on trusted, peer-reviewed studies.
- Fact-checking. All content undergoes a rigorous fact-checking process that includes writers and editors to ensure that the information we publish is current as of the publication date.
- Expert panel. Our expert panel closely collaborates with ConsidraCare’s editorial team across articles, videos, and more, bringing their decades of rich professional experience to add additional context and depth to our content.
- Article reviews. We review our articles before publication to verify accuracy and ensure they align with the latest industry trends and information.
- Timely corrections and content updates. If we discover or are informed of a factual error, we post a correction. We review all content on a regular basis and schedule content updates to ensure that our content remains accurate over time. If you believe you have identified an error in our content, please email us at . The editorial team will consider your feedback and update as necessary.
Editorial Independence
Our editorial team is solely responsible for the production of all editorial content, including but not limited to articles, community information, downloads, guides, location-based content, and reports.
Our Subject Matter
ConsidraCare’s content covers a wide variety of topics pertaining to seniors and caregiving. Our content is designed to address the full spectrum of the aging experience for both seniors and their families.
- Senior care and home care.ConsidraCare brings unique insights to common questions seniors and caregivers have about all things senior living, from home care, independent living to assisted living, and even nursing homes.
- Caregiver support. Caring for a senior loved one can present challenges for caregivers. Our content seeks to provide information to empower caregivers, helping them understand the situations they face in caring for a senior and the options they have for support.
- Location-based insights.ConsidraCare compiles data to give seniors and caregivers the best information about senior care in a given city or state. We evaluate senior-friendliness, regulations, and more to give you the information you need to assess which option best fits you or your senior loved one.
- Health and wellness. Seniors face unique health challenges, and ConsidraCare wants to empower them – and their caregivers – to live life to the fullest! Our health and wellness content is reviewed by health care experts to ensure it reflects current medical knowledge and best practices.
Together, these guidelines ensure that every piece of content we publish reflects our commitment to accuracy, transparency, and compassionate support for seniors and caregivers alike, and that we strive to make every resource truly useful to those who rely on it.
