Equipment Hire – Humber
Help Finding a Care Home
Equipment Hire – Birmingham
Funeral Plans
Buy a Funeral Plan and provide peace of mind for you and those close to you.
Talking about death and funerals can be….well…um…er… a little awkward.
But sometimes talking about awkward things now can have significant benefits for you and your family further down the line.
They say that the only certainties in life are death and taxes, so a funeral plan is something you may wish to consider. However, purchasing a funeral plan is not just a financial decision, it’s an emotional one. Having a funeral plan in place genuinely means one less thing for your loved ones to think about at one of life’s saddest and emotional times. You and your family can choose the funeral that you want, and it will save your family from any uncertainty and worry over your final wishes.
Support for working carers
If you work and you are a carer your employer may be able to help with flexible working, taking time off and achieving a better work/life balance.
If you work you should tell your employer that you are a carer. They may have carer friendly policies that can help you achieve a better work/life balance. Ask your local council for a carer’s assessment which is a chance to discuss your needs with your local council. They may be able to offer you support. They should take into account if you want to stay in work or start working if you are not working.
Mind – Addiction
Mind – Mental Health
NHS Healthy Ageing
The advice in this booklet will help improve the health and general fitness of people of any age, but it is written to be particularly relevant for people who are about 70 years or older.
People of this age, and sometimes younger, begin a ‘slowing-down’ process related to the effects of ageing on their body. We cannot stop the process of ageing, but the advice given here will help to keep you fit and independent.
NHS Inform – Strength and Balance Exercises
Emergency Schemes for Carers
Many local carer services and local councils offer carer schemes where an emergency plan can be put into action if you have a caring emergency.
Most of these schemes are free.How do the schemes work?
Each of the schemes will work slightly differently so check with your local carer service about what is available where you live. Usually you will need to carry a card with you at all times. In an emergency, anyone who finds this card will know you are a carer and that there is someone relying on your support. They can ring the phone number on the card and that will go through to a 24-hour-a-day call centre. The call centre will have your emergency plan that says what you would like to happen in the event of an emergency. This may be as simple as calling someone else you know who can care for the person you usually look after until you are better. Some schemes include some emergency care from your local council but check with the scheme where you live. These schemes don't usually cover you if you have something planned, such as an appointment, and need short-term replacement care.
Support for carers of people with autism
Carers First Young Carers
Help For Young Carers – NHS
If you're a young carer, friends and relatives are often the first people to turn to for help with problems. Talking things through with them can be really helpful.
If you find it hard to talk to others, try to write your thoughts in a diary, poem or letter first. This can help to make sense of your thoughts and how you feel, before getting help.
Equipment Hire – York
Be Independent equipment loan service provides simple aids to daily living to support lifelong independence for:
- disabled people
- people recovering from surgery
- elderly people
Loan equipment from Be Independent
Based on assessment details and the equipment needed, when you loan equipment from Be Independent they'll arrange:- delivery to your home address, or alternative address in York
- options for you, carers or healthcare professionals to collect equipment
- fitting and installation of equipment in your home, if requested by a healthcare professional
- maintenance of equipment to ensure statutory compliance
- collection or return of equipment no longer required
- cleaning of returned equipment at our decontamination unit
- repair, refurbishment and recycling of equipment, where viable
Equipment Hire – Leeds
There are many types of equipment to help you with everyday activities at home.
These can help you live more independently and safely if you're older or disabled. Different types of equipment can be used to help in the:- kitchen - such as bigger control knobs for the cooker and kettle tippers to help you pour water
- bathroom - such as raised toilet seats and commodes, shower and bath seats, alterations to taps
- bedroom - such as specially adapted beds, grab rails, talking clocks
- living room - such as specially adapted chairs, mobile or ceiling mounted hoists
- rest of your home - such as louder doorbells and phones, wall to floor rails, alterations to steps, trolleys for carrying things between rooms
Sunderland City Council
Adult social care and support
Sunderland City Council can point you towards the right organisations that may be able to help you. In order to be able to receive support from Sunderland City Council, you need to meet the national minimum eligibility criteria. They'll ask you some questions about your day-to-day life to work out what you need, this is called an assessment. This information will them be used to help meet your needs.
Equipment Hire – Sunderland
Community Equipment Services supplies and fits equipment and minor adaptations to help children and adults with disabilities to live safely and independently at home.
The service is a jointly funded partnership between Sunderland City Council and the Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group. Equipment is free of charge and provided on a long-term loan basis following an assessment from a nurse, Occupational Therapist, or Physiotherapist. If you want advice about buying your own equipment, the service can put you in touch with an Occupational Therapist who can help.
The service repairs, services, maintains and replaces equipment. The professional who assesses your needs will tell you when your equipment is being delivered.
When they deliver your equipment, they will show you how to use it safely. When you no longer need your equipment, you can bring it back to them or they can come and collect it from you.
Equipment Hire – Sheffield
Patient Advice and Liaison Service – Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
The Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) provides a point of contact for patients who have a concern but either don’t know which member of staff or department to raise it with, or feel that they need to speak to someone outside of the department or ward to which their concern relates.
The Patient Advice and Liaison Service are knowledgeable and experienced in handling patients’ concerns and have overall responsibility for ensuring responses to complainants are coordinated effectively and efficiently.
The main responsibility of the Patient Advice and Liaison Service is to provide a high quality initial response to complainants and to pass concerns and complaints to directorates and departments for investigation and resolution.
Sheffield Carers Centre
Age UK – York
Age UK York offer a wide range of services to older people in York to enable them to live better lives. This includes information and advice, benefits and money advice, befriending services, carer respite service, Day Clubs and Home From Hospital support. All their work is aimed at improving the lives of older people in York. Age UK York encourages older people to speak out about local and national issues. They are here to make more of life in York.
York and Selby Alzheimer’s Society
Sheffield Health and Social Care
Adult Social Care – York
As a carer, under the Care Act 2014, you're entitled to have a carer’s assessment to understand the physical, emotional and practical impact that caring has on your life
Assessing your needs is a free and confidential service, you can:- have an assessment over the telephone
- speak to them in person
- looks at your caring situation
- checks that your needs are taken into account
- identifies the physical, emotional and practical impact that caring has on your life
- is an opportunity to discuss the things that could make caring easier for you
- the kind of support the person you care for needs
- what help you might need to provide care
- how to look after your own wellbeing
- maintaining your own health
- balancing caring with your life, work and family commitments
