Care - A Family Affair - K101

Care - A Family Affair - K101

1. What is care?

   • Care repairs, supports and maintains peoples physical, mental & emotional health & well-being
   • We all need care at different times in our lives
   • wellbeing = respecting spiritual needs, dignity & social needs

2. Care within families

   • Family care saves the government a lot of money
   • Unofficial carers are family/friends who care for someone who is ill or unable to manage
   • Important to identify carers to offer help &/or financial support
   • Can be difficult to identify carers - kept private, resistance to be labelled, hard to measure amount of care

3. Carers Allowance, £61.35 per week for 35+ hours care

4. Experiencing family care

   • Care relationships can be stressful
   • Caring is hard work & can impact on family life, careers & social life. It can be lonely.
   • A crisis may occur before people seek support
   • Relationship between carer and cared-for influenced by past & present lives
   • Sense of duty/no choice
   • Cared-for are vulnerable to abuse & ill-treatment, and vice versa

5. Examples - Ann, Angus