I care for my mum who is 92 years old and has dementia. I get no help at all I’m alone in this journey.
I asked my local Carers Centrie for help and was to get an assessment done but the man was off sick and when I was told in a very nasty Tone you will get who we can give you no idea when or if that will happen and that was that. I feel they are not nice to me and don’t offer to send someone else to do a Carers assessment just that’s that. So much for being a Carers centre the local dementia resource centre have supported me so well that I’m just glad someone understands. But that’s more for mum than for I who is the carer.
Kate
Hi Kate.
Needs / Carer assessments … directly through your own LA for those … links follow as to what , on paper , they are :
Getting a social care needs assessment - NHS
Carer's assessment | Carers UK
Usual Forum health warning … waiting times … a real post code lottery.
And , what exists on paper does not automatically mean the same in reality … threads / postings galore on that aspect !
Carers Centre ?
Care to name who runs your local one ? ( My monies are all on just one outfit. )
Dementia Centre ?
Alzheimers Society perhaps ?
https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/
In most cases , worth their weight in carers’ gold … food bank parcels … good for carers as well !
Feel free to bounce anything else off us here on this forum.
where abouts are you, it is a bit of a postcode lottery