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Jane Holmes: Who cares for the carers?
What happens when the carer becomes ill?
By Jane Holmes
November 12, 2012
Jane Holmes is chief executive of Wokingham-based charity Building for the Future which provides support and activities for disabled children.
She set up the charity after her daughter Kitty was born with severe cerebral palsy.
Yesterday, I was talking to a single mum of a disabled adult about respite provision.
My friend, whose beautiful young adult daughter has the developmental age of a baby, has found herself having to fight to get the help they need.
Of course she’s been through this once, when her daughter was a child, but the whole process starts anew at age eighteen.
What would you do if your adult child needed more care than the average baby? Just imagine it for a moment. And let’s not be complacent … all of our kids are just one car crash away ..
Carers sought for ‘rewarding’ respite scheme
The Shared Lives scheme, run by West Sussex County Council
Shared Lives carer, Jane Baskerville, with Richard Brooks and dogs Lucy and Larry
The Shared Lives scheme, run by West Sussex County Council, already has 73 carers providing care for 115 adults, but now the council wants to expand it. Under the initiative, adults who would normally live in residential care stay in a family environment with the carers.
Under the initiative, adults who would normally live in residential care stay in a family environment with the carers.
These respite placements can be short or long-term.
It is hoped the scheme could eventually be expanded to provide placements for the elderly, vulnerable mothers and babies and young offenders.
Martin and Jane Baskerville, of Brooklyn Avenue, Worthing, have been carers for 14 years and are keen believers in the approach, which they say tends to be of more benefit than living in larger care homes.
Cash boost so Bath carers can take a break
Carers in Bath will be given the chance to take some time out and treat themselves thanks to a new charity fund
.
The Carers’ Centre has been presented with £1,500 Bill’s Breaks fund, which is designed to allow people to do something they enjoy, such as a museum or theatre trip, a computer course, help finding employment, shopping days or even a 1940s-style tea party.
Thanks to the fund all the treats are free for carers and can include free transport and help to look after the cared-for person.
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