Services for Adult Carers
We offer on-going support through both group activities and on a one-to-one basis for adult carers living in our area.
We help carers complete self-assessment forms, and apply for benefits and grants. We are a local source of information and support, dedicated to promoting the rights and improving the quality of life of both young and adult carers.
We work with various organisations across the Bristol and South Gloucestershire area including hospitals, doctors surgeries, local PCTs, councils and other charities to ensure the service we offer can benefit the maximum number of carers.
Who is an adult carer?
A carer is someone who, without payment, provides help and support to a partner, child, relative, friend or neighbour, who could not manage without their help. This could be due to age, physical or mental illness, addiction or disability.
Anyone can become a carer; carers come from all walks of life, all cultures and can be of any age.
Many carers do not consider themselves to be a carer, they are just looking after their mother, son, or best friend, just getting on with it and doing what anyone else would in the same situation.
Carers don’t choose to become carers: it just happens and they have to get on with it – if they did not do it, who would and what would happen to the person they care for?
Why do carers need support?
- Taking on a caring role can mean facing a life of poverty, isolation, frustration, ill health and depression.
- Many carers give up an income, future employment prospects and pension rights to become a carer.
- Many carers also work outside the home and are trying to juggle jobs with their responsibilities as carers.
- The majority of carers struggle along and do not know that help is available to them.
- Carers say that access to information; financial support and breaks in caring are vital in helping them manage the impact of caring on their lives.
Please use the 'Services Menu' to the right hand side of this page to view further information on the services we offer.
Support staff are always there helping and enabling to keep a family together. Thank you so much..."
