Caring & Bereavement...
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Being Sensitive to a Long-term Illness
Caring for someone with a long-term illness requires sensitivity both to the illness and the ways in which the illness will alter someone's...
Caring for Someone with Dementia
Dementia is a degenerative mental illness which causes problems with memory loss, thinking and reasoning. Dementia usually affects a person’s mental health gradually...
Caring from a Distance
Even if you don’t live near to your loved one, you can care from afar. Caring takes many forms and you may be able to give support in arranging financial affairs,...
Coping Emotionally with a Loss
Loss comes in different forms and there is no right or wrong way in how you should feel or cope with the loss of a loved one.
Loss and Death
You can lose...
Disucussing Death With a Terminally Ill Loved One
When facing a terminal illness the person who is ill, you as their carer and other members of the family may not know what they should do next or how...
Moving on After Caring
Your caring role may have come to an end for a number of reasons. The person you’ve been caring for may have died or you may be a young carer who is leaving the family...
Practicalities Surrounding the Death of a Loved One
When someone dies their death needs to be registered within five days, in the area where the death occurred. In Scotland you have eight days to...
The Help Of A Hospice In Caring For The Terminally Ill
The first hospices, back in the 4th Century, were resting places for travellers. Much later, in the 19th Century, hospices were places run by...
