Category Archives: Carers

Please give an hour of your time to help someone else get on line

October 24, 2011   Carers, disability, internet

Give an hour Campaign

 

More about this campaign: http://www.bbc.co.uk/connect/campaigns/give_an_hour.shtml Celebrities from Gaby Logan, Stephen Nolan, Simon Rimmer, Colin Jackson, Linda Robson, Christopher Eccleston, Alvin Hall to Bill and Sian from BBC Breakfast all say who they will be getting online and what they hope to show them, for the Give an Hour Campaign.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/connect/campaigns/give_an_hour.shtml

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The Hardest Hit March in Norwich against government cuts

October 24, 2011   Carers, disability, ukcuts

Disabled people march in Norwich over government cuts

By Stephen Pullinger

  The Norwich Hardest Hit March against government cuts makes its way through the city centre. Photo by Simon Finlay

More than 200 protesters, including wheelchair users and visually impaired people with guide dogs and white sticks, gathered in Chapelfield Gardens at 11.30am, with a placard-waving march around nearby streets beginning at noon.

 

The rally was one of several organised around the country by Hardest Hit, a consortium of 40 disability organisations.

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Caring for more than one person in the family

October 23, 2011   Carers, family, Older care

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfb8YeGJs-c[/youtube]

 

 

John and Beth both care for their mothers and their son Nathan, 17. The couple represents what’s commonly known as ‘sandwich carers’ — people who care for a younger- and older-generation relative. Follow a day in Beth’s life to find out how she copes and where she finds support. A practical guide to caring

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/NHSChoices#p/u/1/kfb8YeGJs-c

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