Tag Archives: carers
Family and friends’ needs when you Care for someone
Being a carer can put pressure on your relationships with your partner, children, extended family or friends.
You may feel like you’re constantly juggling your time and trying to keep other people happy. Time off from caring can help to redress the balance.
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Your partner
Your caring responsibilities can put pressure on all your relationships but especially that of you and your partner. If you care for someone who perhaps has complex needs, you may find that you don’t get to spend valuable time together. You could discuss these feelings with a social worker who should inform you of a carer’s assessment, which will look at your need to nurture your relationships, and may be able to offer you respite care if appropriate.
NHS staff slam ‘two-tier’ system
Friday 27th July 2012, 10:20AM BST.
Top brass received bumper bonuses while frontline employees fight for their jobs.
NHS workers have accused senior staff of exercising a “two-tier system”, after top brass received bumper bonuses while frontline employees fight for their jobs.
A health boss whose staff are facing drastic changes to pay and conditions has also come under fire for “showing complete disharmony” with colleagues after posting details of his new boat on the internet.
Shaun Clee, chief executive of 2gether NHS Foundation Trust in Gloucester, took to micro-blogging site Twitter to inform his “followers” of the purchase, made during a recent trip to St Austell in Cornwall.
He wrote: “Round trip to St Austell. Sea trial resulted in new boat – oops!”
Loneliness rife among older men
Thursday, 26 July 2012
Many men over 75 suffer from lack of social contact and depression
190,000 British men over 75, who live alone, are lonely according to WRVS research, which identified 36 per cent spend more than 12 hours of the day on their own.
The research found that these men are more likely to be lonely than women, however they are less likely to confide in friends and family about their feelings (11 per cent men, 24 per cent women).
The findings also highlight the extent to which these men are socially isolated with 41 per cent typically having two or less face to face conversations a day and one in 33 (three per cent) having none.
There is widespread agreement amongst experts that loneliness is a serious health issue because it makes it more likely that older people will develop illnesses that reach crisis level and need hospital care.
