For adult children caring from Ireland or abroad, night-time worry is often the greatest concern. This article explores how elderly parents living alone in Dublin can feel safer and more supported with overnight home share companionship.

For many adults who left Ireland decades ago, life has become a careful balancing act — careers, children, mortgages, and a life built far from home. And then, quietly, another weight settles in. Your parent back in Ireland is getting older. If you are living in London, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, Dubai or Abu Dhabi, and your mother or father is now in their late 70s, 80s or beyond, you may find yourself lying awake at night asking: Is Mum really safe living alone in Dublin?

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