About

Who writes this, why it exists, and who pays for the one box that is paid for

A short page, because you did not come here to read about us. Three things you are entitled to know before you trust a website at 2am: who publishes it, why, and where the money comes from.

Who publishes it

Burned Out Daughter is published by OwnersFirm, a St. Louis company that builds reference sites for local businesses and their customers. It is not a clinic, a charity, an agency, or a government program. It has no clinician on staff, which is why every page carries a desk byline rather than a named author and why every clinical question on the site is sent to the doctor who actually treats your parent. The desk is a small team of writers and editors who read the public sources, fill in the week on paper, and write for one reader at a time.

Why it exists

Because search results for caregiver burnout are written by clinics and national chains, and none of them are written to the daughter in Ballwin who left her job eighteen months ago and has not had a Saturday since. She is not a patient and she is not a lead. She is a woman doing three jobs' worth of hours for no money, and what she needs at 2am is permission to be tired, a phone number for the first four hours off, the honest list of money doors with their eligibility rules, and a backup plan for the day she is the one who is ill. That is the site: eight articles, one hub, one device, the 168 hour bar, and nothing else.

How it is sourced

Every number and every program claim on this site links, in the sentence where it is made, to a public page: Medicare, the National Institute on Aging, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Aging Ahead, the Family Caregiver Alliance, the Alzheimer's Association, and the others listed on the sources page with the date each was opened. If a fact was not on one of those pages when we opened it, it is not on this site. We do not cite a blog that cites the government; we cite the government. Where we could not verify something, the page says so instead of guessing, and there are two places on this site where it says exactly that.

Where the money comes from

One box on this site is paid for, and it is the same box every time. New Plan Care, an independently owned non-medical in-home care company in Chesterfield, Missouri, is a client of OwnersFirm, which publishes this site, and it pays for that placement. It appears on the home page and at the foot of each article, and it is labelled as a paid placement every time it appears, with the disclosure in full. It is an advertisement with a phone number. It is not a rank, a result, a rating, or a recommendation drawn from anything in the articles, and nothing in the articles was written to favour it. The two companies are separately owned. Nothing else on this site is paid for: not the articles, not the sources, not the links to public programs.

We describe that company the only way we will: as a non-medical service, with caregivers who help with daily routines, meals, bathing and dressing, companionship and presence in the house. We do not repeat any claim from its own website about credentials, and we do not print its rate, because it does not publish one and we would not print it if it did. If you want the rate, Call (314) 405-0887 and ask.

What the form does and does not collect

The only form on the site asks for a name, a phone number, and a town or ZIP, with two optional questions about who needs help and how soon. It goes to New Plan Care and to nobody else, so that someone can call you back. It does not ask for, and must never be given, a diagnosis, a medication, a condition, or any other detail about anyone's health. The page says so next to the form. There are no analytics tags on this site, no advertising pixels, and no call-tracking numbers; the phone number printed is the company's own.

Corrections

Public pages change, programs lose funding, phone numbers move. If something on this site no longer matches the page it links to, the linked page wins and we owe a fix. Write to the publisher, OwnersFirm, and name the page and the sentence. We would rather be corrected than be the reason someone in Ballwin called a number that no longer answers.

What this site is not

It is not medical advice, a diagnosis, or a treatment plan, and nothing here should change a dose, a care plan, or a decision that belongs with a physician. It is not legal or financial advice; the pages on money and on the backup plan say when to ask a lawyer and when to ask the program itself. It is not a directory of providers and it ranks nobody. It is one reader's desk, for one kind of night, in one metro, written by people who think that woman has earned a straight answer.