Category Archives: Carers
Carers looking after someone with epilepsy often neglect their own health
Carers need help
Figures show that more than one million people spend 50 hours a week providing unpaid care according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Of the 5.8 million who look after family members and friends, 1.4 million people provide more than 50 hours a week of free care.
A survey carried out by Epilepsy Society in 2011 showed that carers looking after someone with epilepsy often neglect their own health needs to care for a loved one.
The unpredictability of the condition and the fact that the need for care can change over time all contribute to the physical, mental and emotional stress of caring for someone with the UK’s most common serious neurological condition.
Tax on carers and the disabled is not fair!
A tax on carers: Charities say 420,000 disabled people will be hit by bedroom tax
Spare rooms are essential for many households with disabled people as they give a carer a space of their own
Thousands of disabled people could lose their homes and be plunged into debt thanks to the bedroom tax, charities say.
Anyone in a council or housing association property will have their housing benefit cut by 14% if they have a spare room and by 25% if they have two or more spare rooms.
But campaigners say 420,000 disabled people, their families and carers will be hit harder by the changes in April.
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