Building a good relationship with the care assistant
Building a strong, trusting relationship with the extended team that cares for your elder, spouse or friend is essential nowadays…...
Category : Help for Carers
Whether you need to help your family members or friends a little or a lot, you need specific help for carers. Maud learned the hard way and has brought everything you need to know together here, useful links and all.
National and local older adult care service providers
Here’s a list of older adult service providers in the UK and in Oxon/Bucks. All support their Local Authority older and you…...
Making care decisions in a pandemic
How has Covid impacted your caring role? A neighbour, a friend and I share our experiences during the pandemic…...
Returning to work after caring
Carers UK asked fellow carers and I to test an e-learning platform designed to help carers wanting to return to work. Could it help you?...
Support for carers and why you need ‘me’ time
How do you manage your energy so you have enough for everything you want to do AND keep some in reserve for fun and/or emergencies?...
Carers’ perspectives on BBC1 ‘Care’ drama, aired 9 Dec 2019
Programming and film on carers and caring is important. It’s a way of raising awareness about care and caring. Read on for what carers thought...
Books for carers
I love a manual. Someone, somewhere has done it before, right? Here’s a handful of books for carers and our reviews…...
Carers groups, could one help you?
I went to my first carer support group in 2017. I’d wondered whether they were any help but now kick myself for not going earlier…...
Are you a carer?
It’s not a ‘cool’ identifier. It might have negative imagery for you? But identifying as a carer does give you access to help…...