Carers’ stories
People who we support share their experiences of being a carer for a family member or friend.
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“I don’t want to be treated like I don’t know anything”
7 March 2022
Young carer Liam talks about his experience as a young carer – and how it can feel when medical professionals don’t realise the level of understanding a young carer can have of the medical needs of the person they care for. Find out more about our work with NHS England and NHS Improvement on a […]
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A message from Shahida encouraging women to seek support
7 March 2022
Shahida Rahman, is a Trustee of Cambridge Central Mosque and Trustee and Chair of the Board of Trustee of the Karim Foundation. Shahida encourages women who are caring for a family member of friend to seek help. She said “Women have a huge role in looking after their ill relatives, whilst trying to maintain the […]
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“As a woman there is an expectation that you’ve just got to do it”
4 March 2022
On the eve of International Women’s Day (8 March), we are highlighting the challenges women face when caring for a friend or family member. Caring is still often thought of as being part and parcel of women’s lives, and women are still most likely to be providing care and most likely to be providing more […]
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“My friend just tells me to stop and turn off my carer brain for five minutes”
2 March 2022
For a young person who has caring responsibilities, trying to transition to, through and beyond university, can be extremely challenging and for some a barrier. On University Mental Health Day, we asked 20-year-old Axel about coping as a young adult carer while studying away from home for a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Studies degree. […]
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Ruth’s story
19 July 2021
At Caring Together we provide information and advice, run services in our local communities and campaign so that carers have choices. The people we support are carers like Ruth and her family. This is Ruth’s story. Ruth and her family I am mum to Josie 15 and triplets Jamie, Phoebe and Amelia 13. Phoebe and […]
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Shannon’s story
26 November 2018
I care for my dad, his name is Wayne. He has a messed up knee where he has pins and needles holding it together. He also has seven discs out of place in his back, a blood clot in his neck causing his memory problems.
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Morgan’s story
24 January 2018
I became a Young Carer in 2011 when my Mum fell down the stairs and fractured her back.
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Learning to Sign with Lucy
8 June 2017
Karen Harris, 47, from Stanground, Peterborough, describes the transformation that a £400 grant made for her and daughter Lucy to communicate.
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Family’s lives changed in a split second by a football accident
26 January 2017
A Huntingdonshire family’s lives were changed in a split second caused by an accident at a youth football match. It is an example of how caring can be thrust upon a family in the blink of an eye, with no time to get used to their caring role, with no gradual build up that some […]
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Emma’s story as a Family Carer – “I was told ‘this is about you’, I wasn’t used to that”
1 November 2016
“I wasn’t used to asking for help, not even from my family, but I knew I had to do something,” said Emma Joy-Staines, feeling increasingly desperate and exhausted as the caregiver for husband Leigh. The stress made Emma suffer severe stomach pains and resulted in the 31-year-old mum of two young children being admitted to […]
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