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Adult Carers

Are you over 18 and do you provide any of the following unpaid support to someone who is ill, disabled, frail, or has mental health or substance mis-use issues?

  • Physical care such as lifting, moving, turning.

  • Emotional support such as comforting, listening, calming.

  • Medical support such as collecting, sorting or giving medication

  • Personal care such as bathing, washing, toileting

  • Household tasks such as cleaning, washing, shopping

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If you do, then you are an adult family carer.

Why might you need support?

 

There are many reasons why you may need support as a carer - often they are within one or more of the following areas:

  • Health and wellbeing

  • Finance and benefits

  • Socialising/building friendships

  • Working and caring

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Your health and wellbeing

 

  • You may feel physically unwell or just tired out from having to care constantly for someone else.

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  • You may feel stressed, emotional and anxious or may be suffering from depression and other mental health issues

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  • You may be missing the life you had before you started having to care.

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Finance

 

  • You may have much less money coming in than you used to and be struggling with the family finances.

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  • You may not be able to afford things that would help the person you care for, and make your life a little easier.

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  • You may be finding it hard to sort through the grants and benefits system to get what you and the person you care for are entitled to.

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Socialising and friendships

 

  • Your caring role may have made things too inflexible to go out and socialise.

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  • Managing friendships when you have little time to meet up can make socialising difficult to sustain.

Working and caring

 

  • You may be exhausted from juggling work and caring.

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  • Your employer may not understand, or you haven't mentioned your home situation and you are finding it difficult to hold down your job.

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We can help in all sorts of different ways - call us to register

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