Who do you trust when you can't be there?

Name one adult you trust to act calmly in a crisis — typically a spouse, sibling, eldest child, or oldest friend. They need to be reachable by phone (a mobile is usually best), emotionally steady enough to make immediate decisions, and trusted to keep your records confidential.

You can also name a backup. The key question is: if something happened to you tonight, who would actually answer the call?

A Trusted Person is the nominated adult you brief to act when you cannot — whether that's incapacity, a medical emergency, or death. They are different from an executor (who deals with the estate after death) and an attorney under a Lasting Power of Attorney (a legal appointment registered with the Office of the Public Guardian).

A Trusted Person is an informal, first-response role: they know where your records are, who to call first, and how to access your documents. Without someone in this role, everything is reconstructed from scratch.

This tool saves your responses to your device using browser localStorage under the key 'valoren.trusted-person.v1'.

Nothing is sent to Valoren's servers until you choose to subscribe and sync your records to the portal. The data does not leave your browser in any form before that point.

No — a Trusted Person nomination made here is not a legal appointment. For a legally enforceable authority, you need a Lasting Power of Attorney (registered with the Office of the Public Guardian).

Naming a Trusted Person here is an informal, practical briefing: it ensures the right person knows where things are and has your explicit permission to act. The LPA Cost Tool and Capacity Quiz on this site cover the legal routes in more detail.