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Informal carers: assessments, breaks, and when to ask for a carer’s assessment
Unpaid carers include relatives, partners, friends, and neighbours providing support because of illness, disability, mental health, or addiction. You may have rights to assessment and support regardless of whether the person you care for accepts services themselves.
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Unpaid carers include relatives, partners, friends, and neighbours providing support because of illness, disability, mental health, or addiction. You may have rights to assessment and support regardless of whether the person you care for accepts services themselves.
- Sleep
- Physical strain
- Money
- Mental health
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Unpaid carers include relatives, partners, friends, and neighbours providing support because of illness, disability, mental health, or addiction. You may have rights to assessment and support regardless of whether…
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- People dealing with assessment.
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Unpaid carers include relatives, partners, friends, and neighbours providing support because of illness, disability, mental health, or addiction. You may have rights to assessment and support regardless of whether the person you care for accepts services themselves.
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Sleep: night waking, turning, supervision, fear of seizures. Start here so the rest of the guide has a clear foundation.
Unpaid carers include relatives, partners, friends, and neighbours providing support because of illness, disability, mental health, or addiction. You may have rights to assessment and support regardless of whether…
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- Sleep: night waking, turning, supervision, fear of seizures.
- Watch out: Sleep
- Keep copies of anything you send and any reply you receive.
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- Sleep: night waking, turning, supervision, fear of seizures.
- Physical strain: lifting without training, back pain, no time for GP.
- Money: reduced hours, travel costs, heating for someone home all day.
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At a glance
- Unpaid carers include relatives, partners, friends, and neighbours providing support because of illness, disability, mental health, or…
- Sleep: night waking, turning, supervision, fear of seizures.
- Physical strain: lifting without training, back pain, no time for GP.
- Evidence that helps: Sleep
- Avoid: Sleep
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