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Moves to tackle isolation of carers extended
A BID to banish isolation among unpaid carers and help them overcome the day-to-day pressures of looking after a loved one is to be extended in North Yorkshire.
Published on the 18 February
2014
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The decision to extend the project across the whole of Harrogate and Ripon follows a six-month pilot project which supported more than 140 carers-in-need across south Harrogate – resulting in half getting help for the very first time – and follows a Yorkshire Post campaign to highlight the shocking scale of loneliness in the region.
The programme of support – run by charity the Carers’ Resource in partnership with the local NHS and North Yorkshire County Council – is to be funded until March next year and expanded into north Harrogate as well as Ripon and rural areas.
The Carers’ Resource said the success of the project had created a strong platform to reach out to more people in the district’s growing community of carers at a time when Government cutbacks were causing unprecedented hardship for them.
Mum with disabled daughter campaigns for wheelchair ramp – and gets £40,000 ‘slalom’ eyesore
Clare Lally begged her local council for improved access for wheelchair-bound Katie, seven, after the council gave them a home at the top of three flights of stairs. What she got turned her relief to shock…
By Chris Parsons | Yahoo News – 21 hours ago
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Yahoo News./SWNS – Eyesore: The ramp has ten ‘slalom-style’ levels outside Katie’s house. (SWNS)
Clare Lally spent two years campaigning for wheelchair home access for her disabled daughter – only for the council to build this 10-level slalom ‘eyesore’ outside her house.
The mum-of-one begged her local council for improved access for wheelchair-bound Katie, seven, after the council gave them a home at the top of three flights of stairs.
Digital skills will bring benefits for carers
In an interview with Healthcare Innovation Daily, Annette King, a manager with Digital Birmingham, says that acquiring the skills to access the internet and its many resources has multiple benefits.
“There are two things carers would generally like do”, she says. “One is to talk to other carers so they don’t feel that they are on their own.
“The other is about the condition of the person they are looking after, so that they can improve their caring”, she added.
