Author Archives: wendy
Forgotten Heroes reaches out to carers
Finding the carers
For every seriously injured serviceman or woman flown back to Britain there is at least one unpaid carer. There are currently more than six million carers in the country, eleven per cent of the population.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4b4v9-6qJs
Schizophrenia is the forgotten illness
Rethink needed over a forgotten illness
ReThink Mental Health services Claire Hoggart
TO MOST of us, Eyre Street is nothing more than a big bus route and home to the Cheesegrater car park.
But to some, it’s home to a life-saving organisation, Rethink Mental Illness.
Rethink Mental Illness provides support for carers of mental illness sufferers, as well as housing support and advice. And James Barlow is at the centre of it all. He provides training and support for the family and friends of sufferers of illnesses such as schizophrenia.
“Illnesses such as schizophrenia can have a huge impact on the lives of carers. It can affect carers emotionally and financially – as many of them have to reduce their working hours in order to fit in their role as a carer.”
Caring for people with schizophrenia is made more difficult by the stigmatisation, lack of understanding and scant medical research on schizophrenia.
Brilliant event for carers in Great Yarmouth 21st November
A brilliant event has been organised to provide support and information to dedicated carers in Norfolk.
The Carers’ Forum, which is hosted by Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, will be held 2pm to 7pm on 21 November 2011 at Kings Centre in Great Yarmouth.
