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Supporting you as an older family carer: a booklet to support older family carers of people with learning disabilities to get the right support now and to plan for emergencies and the long term
- Authors:
- MAGRILL Dalia, PEARCE-NEUDORF Justin
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet has been developed to help older family carers who are caring for people with learning disabilities to think and plan for the future as they get older. It covers: Getting the right support now; Practical support you may find useful; Preparing for emergencies; Preparing for the future. It aims to present different options and present a good starting point to finding solutions. It includes checklists and notes boxes to record information and service needs. It is one of a series of publications to come from the Mutual Caring project, set up to promote good practice and improve service provision for older families caring for people with learning disabilities.
Supporting you and your family as you grow older together: a booklet for people with learning disabilities who live at home with an older family carer
- Authors:
- MAGRILL Dalia, PEARCE-NEUDORF Justin
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A practical booklet for people with learning disabilities who are cared for by an older person in their family. It aims to help the family live together now, and also to think about things that may need to be done in the future. This booklet provides: good questions to ask; things that can help you now and in the future; and some of the people who can help you. It also looks at how to get ready for emergencies. Boxes to tick and write in are included throughout the booklet, providing a useful list of things to do or find out. This is one of a series of publications to come from the Mutual Caring project, set up to promote good practice and improve service provision for older families caring for people with learning disabilities.
Supporting older carers of people with learning disabilities: planning for the future
- Author:
- MAGRILL Dalia
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 2(4), December 1999, pp.25-29.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Sharing Caring Project (SCP) in Sheffield supports carers between the age of 55 and 96 years who are known to be still caring at home for a person with learning disabilities. Many of these carers now have needs of their own as well as being carers. They need help to maintain the care they give and to plan for the future. This article describes one approach.
Being a carer and having a carer's assessment: how to get help if you are doing a lot to look after another person: a resource pack for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- MAGRILL Dalia
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Valuing People Support Team
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This pack provides information to help people with learning disabilities understand whether they are a carer, what their rights are and what is available to help them. The pack has sections covering: Am I a carer?; What are my rights?; Having a carers assessment; What help can I get. Part 5, Getting ready for my carers' assessment has a form to complete to help to get ready for a carers assessment. The final section provides a guide for workers, advocates, friends or family members who may be supporting people to use the pack. It includes examples of people with learning disabilities who are carers and the services they receive to support them.
Supporting learning disability partnership boards to implement the national carers strategy
- Authors:
- MAGRILL Dalia, TOWERS Christine, MORGAN Hazel
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document aims to inform Learning Disability Partnerships about the National Carers Strategy. It includes information to ensure that local plans for all carers include carers of people with learning disabilities and carers with a learning disability. The document is in four parts, and covers: Joining up the National Carers Strategy and Valuing People Now; what the Government is already doing to support carers; Carers at the Heart of the 21st Century Families and Communities - the new National Carers Strategy and questions that a partnership board can use to check what is happening in their area to make the National Carers Strategy Happen.
Crisis approaching: the situation facing Sheffield's elderly carers of people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- MAGRILL Dalia, et al
- Publisher:
- The Sharing Caring Project
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 35p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Report from a project set up to identify the needs of people approaching the age of seventy and above who still care for a person with learning difficulties. The report outlines the findings of questionnaires completed with sixty carers and the outcomes of six local focus groups of older carers. Aims to present readers with an overall picture of the experiences, needs and concerns of elderly carers in Sheffield.