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  1. Help & advice for carers

    If you look after a partner, relative or friend who's ill or disabled, you're a carer. You may be entitled to financial support. Find out more with Age UK.

  2. Supporting carers in the community

    Age UK explores why recognising and helping unpaid carers like Janet is so crucial - during Carers Week and all year round.

  3. Advice for carers information guide

    Download Age UK's Advice for carers information guide to find out more about practical and emotional help that's available when you’re looking after someone.

  4. Philippa Forrester on wellbeing and the wild

    women have on you? Do you understand yourself in a different way? Can you reach for nature as a wellbeing tool , or can you give something back to the natural world? Hopefully the book will deepen that

  5. Index of Wellbeing in Later Life

    Find out from Age UK how our Index of Wellbeing in Later Life helps us to gain an understanding of the policy and practical levers for improving wellbeing.

  6. Who cares for those without carers?

    family to support them? Last month, the Social Market Foundation and Age UK published “Caring for Carers” examining the demographics and experiences of people providing unpaid care. Contained within it ... the question full consideration. Firstly as the report shows, the activities carried out by family carers are many and varied but are very often deeply practical everyday tasks like housework, shopping,

  7. Tips for carers during the coronavirus pandemic

    Caring for someone can be challenging at the best of times. Age UK gives tips to help carers and their loved ones cope during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  8. Recognising the carers in need of help

    A new report reveals the number of unpaid carers in the UK, and the levels of anxiety and loneliness they experience.

  9. How can we better support unpaid carers?

    recent research about the impact of caring, and discusses how we can provide better support to unpaid carers.

  10. Support services and groups for carers

    emotional support to unpaid carers and provide opportunities for respite from caring duties. Being a carer can be tiring and isolating, and there’s greater pressure on carers than ever before. As our population ... many of whom are in later life themselves. According to our recent research, there are now over 2m carers aged 65 and over, 417,000 of whom are aged 80 and over. To add to the challenges of caring, the gap

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