Category Archives: Carers
GROUND-BREAKING free course to help carers to overcome anxiety and depression
Free carers therapy for positivity
Published on Friday 12 August 2011 09:00
A GROUND-BREAKING free course is running in Dunstable to help carers to overcome anxiety and depression.
Central Bedfordshire Council is pioneering the six-week course, which uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help carers look at their situation and their emotional response to it.
Therapist Allison White, who runs the scheme at the local authority offices in High Street North, said: “CBT creates a positive space for carers to talk about how they are feeling and gives them some useful coping mechanisms. It’s all about increasing their self worth and quality of life.”
“The course provides an insight into anxiety and depression, their effects on the body, thoughts and behaviour.
Care in my own home nightmare.
PAID Carer from hell
From the person being cared for.
As a disabled 35 year old lady who suffers from Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis and severely disabled and use a wheelchair fulltime, I need care 24/7 care, this is provided by a paid carer and my mother, I have lots of information about me for them to read and support from my mother who teaches them how to move me and hoist me and how I like to be cared for (I do have rights)
There is a lack of trust today for the care of the elderly
Three in four of us don’t trust care homes to look after our relatives properly
By Fiona Macrae
Last updated at 8:29 AM on 8th August 2011
Three in four Britons plan to look after their elderly relatives themselves because they don’t trust homes to care for them properly.
Eight in ten would rather their quality of life be affected than that of their parents or grandparents, according to a poll of 2,000 men and women whose parents are beginning to struggle to live in their own houses.
Two-thirds of the women surveyed said they would feel they were letting a loved one down by putting them in a home.
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