About this desk
Who writes this, and why
A playbook for one reader at one moment: the adult son in the St. Louis metro whose father has fallen, will not let anyone in the house, and still says he is fine. It is not a clinic, not a ranking, and not a sales floor.
This site is supported by New Plan Care, a St. Louis in-home care company.
Who publishes it
OwnersFirm publishes this site. The company is based in St. Louis and puts out reference desks for households in this metro. This playbook is one of those desks. Every page carries a desk byline rather than a named author, on purpose: nobody here should be mistaken for a doctor, a lawyer, or a social worker. The two companies are not commonly owned.
Why it exists
Search for "can you force an elderly parent to accept care" at 2am and most of what comes back is a forum thread, a lecture about stubbornness, or a company's blog. The public documents that actually answer the question, Missouri's guardianship statute, the Adult Abuse and Neglect Hotline, the driver-license medical review, the National Institute on Aging's signs that someone needs help, sit on separate government sites and were not written for a son standing in a kitchen in Ballwin. This desk puts them in the order the night arrives, in plain words, with a link on every fact so you can check it yourself.
How it is cited
Every number, rule and phone number on this site links inline to a public source: a federal or Missouri government page, or a major nonprofit such as the National Institute on Aging, the Alzheimer's Association, or the Family Caregiver Alliance. The sources page lists all of them, with the date each was opened, and how we write explains the rules in full. A claim that does not appear on that list does not belong on these pages.
What this playbook will not do
- It will not tell you what a symptom means, name a disease, or write a treatment plan. Each play hands the medical question to the care team or the physician.
- It will not publish an hourly rate, or a range of rates, for any company that sends help into a house. No public dataset carries those numbers.
- It will not rank, knock, or compare a hospital, a hospice, a facility, or another company.
- It will not invent a statistic, a quote, a review or a testimonial, and it will not use a named composite family.
- It will not drop an analytics tag, a tracking pixel, or a call-tracking number on these pages.
- It will not give legal advice. Public statutes are linked as directories. A power of attorney, a guardianship petition, or a driver report is a job for a Missouri attorney and, where the statute says so, for a court.
Who supports this site
New Plan Care Solutions is never a rank, a score or a result of anything written here. The eighteen plays were not bought, and none was written to tilt toward it. The only form on the site, on the home page, sends a name, an email, an optional phone number and a short note to New Plan Care Solutions, and asks families not to include health details.
Corrections
Public pages change. When a figure on these pages drifts from the document it points to, the document is the authority, and this desk will fix the page on the next review. The sources page prints the day each document was last opened, so you can decide how current a claim looks.