Lifelong Care Dossier: Change With Her

The hand-in

What leaves your desk

A longitudinal case dossier with a baseline, change record, revised household decision, adaptive care plan, and professional-conversation brief.

Purpose#

The capstone asks whether the course has changed the way you think across time. A plan that suited a kitten may become unhelpful, inaccessible or impossible thirteen years later. Good care keeps its commitment while changing its form.

The brief#

Show how one defensible care decision must change when the cat, the home and the caregiver no longer match their earlier selves.

Work from the supplied longitudinal case archive. Identify the old baseline, the new pattern, the decision that now needs revisiting, and the evidence that makes revision necessary.

What you submit#

Submit one coherent dossier: baseline and change record, revised judgement, adaptive care plan, and a short brief for the next professional conversation. The pieces should work together as one record rather than as separate answers to twelve chapters.

Basic expectations#

Strong work carries earlier learning forward without flattening a very old cat into a checklist. It shows what the caregiver can observe and change, what requires veterinary expertise, and how a sustainable plan includes the household’s real capacity.

Timing#

Due at the end of the course. The final fortnight is reserved for integration, revision and checking that the dossier remains useful to a person who did not watch you make it.

The spec

These expectations are the fixed part of the brief. They make the work inspectable without reducing the quality of judgement to a checklist.

• the dossier compares at least two life stages without treating age itself as a diagnosis
• an earlier household decision is revisited in light of changed mobility, health, behaviour or capacity
• the care plan includes observable measures, feasible adaptations and explicit escalation boundaries
• caregiver time, financial, emotional or physical capacity is addressed honestly
• the ending supports shared decision-making and does not prescribe an unverified clinical outcome

How it is marked

Criterion	Weight
Life-course integration	30%
Adaptive care reasoning	30%
Evidence, uncertainty and scope	25%
Owner-facing clarity	15%