About sections — overview

How an area's About profile is built up from versioned sections with read receipts.

Each area has an About profile — a stack of sections describing the supported person. Common sections include "Background", "Communication", "Medical", "Daily routine", "Behaviours of concern", "Likes and dislikes".

What's on every section

  • Title and body — body uses the rich-text editor (bold, lists, images, tables, links).

  • Folder — optional. Related sections can be grouped (e.g. "Health", "Lifestyle").

  • Read receipts — every user who has marked the latest revision as read appears on the section's "Read by" list.

  • Audit trail — every revision is preserved as a separate row. Auditors can browse exactly what was documented and when.

Versioned, not editable in place

Editing a section doesn't overwrite the original — it creates a new revision. The latest revision is what staff see by default. Older revisions are accessible from the section's history. See Revising an About section.

Who can do what

Role

Read

Mark read

Create / edit

Regular member

Yes

Yes

No

area moderator

Yes

Yes

Yes

Realm admin

Yes

Yes

Yes

Note — There is no separate "draft" or "publish" step — saving an About section makes it live immediately for everyone with access to the area. Be thoughtful before you save.

Last updated 21 May 2026 · by Carerealm · Suggest a feature or change to this article
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