Getting Help

Access practical information on support services, respite care, counselling, and benefits available to carers. Find the help and resources you genuinely need and deserve.

Arranging for a Carer's Assessment

If you look after someone you can request a carer's assessment from your social services department. It doesn't matter if the person you care for currently h...

Arranging For A Community Care Assessment

If someone becomes less able to look after themselves either due to age, infirmity or illness, the local social service department is responsible for arrangi...

Discussing a Loved One's Needs With Others

When you care for others you necessarily become an expert on those people’s needs. You come to understand their physical health, mental health, typical emo...

Emergency Care Cover

When carers are asked what worries them most, the most common answer is their concern about what would happen if they were suddenly unable to care for their...

How To Get Help as a Carer

Being a carer is an arduous long term occupation and you should try to share the burden as much as possible. Cooking cleaning, shopping, feeding and bathing...

Questionnaire: Are You Getting Enough Support as a Carer?

Many carers give of themselves until there is very little left for their own lives and interests, which can lead to increased stress and accelerated burn-out...

Respite Care

Caring for a loved one is challenging and when you are looking after someone else it is easy to neglect your own health and well-being. But for their welfare...

The Importance of a Care Assessment

Anyone who is either aged 18 or over and cannot live independently, or looks after someone over 18 who cannot live independently, can ask their local social...

What are Care Providers

As a carer you look after a relative, partner or a friend who cannot manage at home without help due to a disability or illness or because they are elderly a...