This Carers Week, Caring Together Charity is calling on the public to look out for family members, friends and neighbours who look after someone. We are urging the public to tell unpaid carers about the support that is available for them, and help prevent them from struggling alone or even reaching crisis point.
Use your voice to help prevent unpaid carers reaching crisis point
Carers Week is from 5 – 11 June. If you are on social media, either as an individual or an organisation, you can use the suggested posts below to help raise awareness and prevent unpaid carers reaching crisis point. You an also download images for use with these posts – see below:
Posts for you as an individual
I don’t believe any unpaid carer should be in crisis, isolated or struggling alone.
Find out about how this can happen and the help that is available from Caring Together.
https://www.caringtogether.org/news/stop-unpaid-carers-reaching-crisis-point-this-carers-week/
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No unpaid carer should be in crisis, isolated or struggling alone.
If you, or someone you know, are looking after a family member or friend, help is available.
Find out why it is so important to get the right support for you and how Caring Together can help – https://www.caringtogether.org/news/stop-unpaid-carers-reaching-crisis-point-this-carers-week/
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If you are looking after a family member or friend, I don’t want you to feel you have to do this alone.
Find out about Carers Week and the help available to unpaid carers from Caring Together.
https://www.caringtogether.org/news/stop-unpaid-carers-reaching-crisis-point-this-carers-week/
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Suggested social media posts for your organisation
We don’t believe any unpaid carer should be in crisis, isolated or struggling alone.
Find out about how this can happen and the help that is available from Caring Together
https://www.caringtogether.org/news/stop-unpaid-carers-reaching-crisis-point-this-carers-week/
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No unpaid carer should be in crisis, isolated or struggling alone.
If you, or someone you know, are looking after a family member or friend, help is available.
Find out why it is so important to get the right support for you and how Caring Together can help – https://www.caringtogether.org/news/stop-unpaid-carers-reaching-crisis-point-this-carers-week/
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If you are looking after a family member or friend, we don’t want you to feel you have to do this alone.
Find out about Carers Week and the help available to unpaid carers from Caring Together.
https://www.caringtogether.org/news/stop-unpaid-carers-reaching-crisis-point-this-carers-week/
Images for social media
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Why we need you to help
There are over 150,000 unpaid carers across the region covered by the charity: Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Peterborough, and tens of thousands are caring alone behind closed doors. More than three in five of us will become an unpaid carer at some point in our life. We will look after a family member or friend who needs our help because of illness, disability, poor mental health or addiction. Despite how common caring is, many unpaid carers feel they are on their own.
Unpaid carers often find themselves plunged into a caring role with little warning, and feel completely overwhelmed by the heavy responsibilities they shoulder. Many are exhausted from looking after their husband, wife, partner, parent, sibling or child for hours every day, sometimes in addition to trying to hold down a job or bring up children.
Many unpaid carers feel forced to give up work because of the demands of working and caring. Others lose out on educational opportunities, time to see friends, holidays, hobbies and even their own health and wellbeing.
Miriam Martin, chief executive of Caring Together Charity said, “Far too often we speak to unpaid carers who are in crisis, feeling isolated, or struggling alone.
“Some have told us they felt they couldn’t go on, but our support had helped them to come through the darkest of days. The right support makes the world of difference.
“No one who is an unpaid carer should be reaching crisis point before they get help.
“Unpaid carers can be any age and from any background. It is vital that they know help is available for them.”
One unpaid carer told the charity, “I can say in all honesty that had it not been for you I would not be alive now. I had decided that I could not cope anymore and did not want to carry on with life…
“Your counselling has been a life saver for me, and I will never be able to thank you enough. Life is still a struggle, but I now have the tools to cope better.”
One reason unpaid carers do not seek support is they see themselves as primarily a family member or friend, and so do not realise or recognise they also have a caring role. They may feel they just have to cope on their own regardless of the toll it is taking on them.
Anyone in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk who is looking after someone can talk to Caring Together Charity to find out about the help that is available to them.
Simply call 0345 241 0954, email [email protected] or visit caringtogether.org
