Are You A Carer?
If you’re a carer who helps and supports someone who can’t manage on their own, we want to ensure you get all the support you need.
Particularly those people who may be looking after a member of their family or helping a friend or neighbour with day to day tasks, don’t really regard themselves as a Carer and are undertaking this vital activity without help or support.
If you are caring for someone, we really would like you to let us know, so that we can ensure you receive all the support and information we can give on topics such as benefit entitlement, access to respite care or maybe simply being there to provide a kindly ear when things get too much.
Our Health & Wellbeing Coach would be able to support you in practice if you think that you are/or could be caring for someone. We can offer telephone, face to face or video consultations.
Carers Newsletter
There is a wealth of information on the NHS website about carers and caring. Below are some links into the site that we hope you will find useful.
- A guide to care and support
Information for carers and people who have care & support needs. - Caring for someone
Advice on providing care, medicines etc. - Care after hospital
Providing care for people who have been recently discharged from hospital. - Taking a break
Caring for someone can be a full-time job – find out about accessing breaks and respite care. - Support and benefits for carers
Caring for someone can be a full-time job – find out about accessing breaks and respite care. - Work and Disability
Guidance, support and help with employment issues. - Being a Young carer
Advice for carers 18 or under and their entitlement to support.
Finance and Law
Help claiming benefits, looking after your bank balance and understanding the legal issues of caring.
- Benefits for carers
Directing carers to the benefits that can help them in their caring role. - Benefits for the under-65s
Advice and information on helping the person you look after get the benefits that they are entitled to. - Benefits for the over-65s
Advice and information on financial support for older people with a disability or illness. - Carer’s Assessment
How your benefits maybe affected after the death of the person you look after and what happens to their benefits. - Other benefits
Advice for carers and the people they are looking after on claiming a whole host of other benefits unrelated to their disability or caring.
Non-urgent advice: Contact Carers Direct
Telephone: 0808 802 0202
Website: www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support-guide
Email: [email protected]
Lines are open 08:00-21:00, Monday to Friday. 11:00-16:00 at weekends.
Calls are free from UK landlines.