Christmas for unpaid carers
For unpaid carers, the challenges of looking after someone, combined with the extra pressures of Christmas, can mean they just won’t get a break. What can you do to help them during this festive period?
Why Cuts to Respite Care Could Deepen Surrey’s Winter Health Crisis
Surrey County Council’s decision to end its funded contract for respite care breaks leaves hundreds of unpaid carers without the support they rely on. The impact is both immediate and profound.
What Does Home Help Do And How To Get It
Home help involves a trained professional visiting your home to help take care of everyday domestic tasks like washing, ironing, housework and preparing meals.
What Are Companionship Care and Befriending Services?
Elderly people or people with illnesses or disabilities can be affected by loneliness or isolation. This is where companionship care and befriending services can help.
What is Respite Care and How Much Does it Cost?
Respite care allows you to take a break from caring while another qualified professional looks after the person you care for – this can happen at home or elsewhere.
What Does Personal Care Involve and Why Is It Important?
Personal care helps you or someone you care for with essential living tasks like mobility support, personal hygiene, using the toilet, medical support and eating.
How to Choose a Companionship Care Provider
Companionship care is a non-medical form of care. Rather than assisting with physical or personal needs, companionship care is all about meeting a person’s social or emotional needs.
How Much Does Home Help Cost?
The cost of home help will depend on where you live in the country, along with the specific type of assistance you need. The type of home help you get will also affect the price. You’ll have to pay more for a live-in carer, for example, than you would for a carer who visits you a few times a day.
How to Get Care at Home: Arranging Care and Your Options
If you or someone you care about is finding it difficult to manage at home, or if you’re preparing to leave hospital and you know you’ll need support, then a care at home service could help you stay safe, comfortable and independent.
Young Carers Awareness Day
We work to place all unpaid carers at the heart of all we do. Today marks Young Carers Awareness Day and we pledge to join forces with others to raise awareness of the exceptional challenges Young Carers face everyday.