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This Magazine Is for You Quarterly Magazine | Issue 10 | Spring 2018 - Mar • Apr • May Edition CAMBRIDGESHIRE & PETERBOROUGH carers This magazine is for you Quarterly Magazine | Issue 10 | Spring 2018 - Mar • Apr • May Edition Inside this issue: Family Carers' Prescriptions Pride in Our Carers Awards Hello from our new CEO Digital Resources Getting Out and About Events Calendar Are you an unpaid family carer? Do you look after someone? Do you help someone with their day to day life? Are you a working family carer supporting a THISloved one? MAGAZINE IS FOR YOU Contents Hello from our new Hello from our new CEO 2 CEO How a Family Carers' Prescription I am delighted to have been appointed as Can Help You 3 the new Chief Executive of Carers Trust Pride in Our Carers Awards 2018 4 Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Norfolk. My Getting Out and About 5 experiences have largely been working with Care for Jean 6 people who are blind or partially sighted and Changing Care Needs 7 I have become struck by the similarities that Buy With Confidence 7 exist between people who fulfil caring roles and people who live with sight loss. By that Dementia Friendly Swimming 8 I mean the challenges individuals face to Council Tax Discounts 8 access support and information, achieving Enhanced Response Service 9 equivalence of experience in both education Action for Brain Injury Awareness Week 10 and employment and being able to connect Recovery College East 12 with others for support and friendship. It What If? Draw Winner 13 is a similar story too for the organisations Your Opinion Counts 13 seeking to support them; a predicted increase in demand, reduced budgets and a Listening Ear Project 13 tougher regulatory environment. Register for FREE Digital Resources today 14 Kate’s story 15 I have been inspired by the ambition and Family Carers Hubs 15 people of Carers Trust CPN and relish the opportunity to build on the excellent work Come and join the Cambridgeshire Carers Partnership Board 16 of Dr Helen Brown and her team. I am committed to ensuring that family carers of Coping with Stress 17 all ages and circumstances receive services Housing Options for Older People 17 which are relevant, of high quality and easily Events Calendar 18-23 accessible both today and into the future. Young Carers and Young Adult Carers 24-25 Over the coming months I intend to be out Children and Young People 26-28 an about a lot, getting to know as many Pinpoint Parent Carers 29 carers and industry professionals as I can, Support Adverts 29-39 really gaining an understanding of the real What If? Plan 40 life issues you have and to help me and the team build the future organisation that you need it to be. Liability Carers Trust Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Norfolk Miriam Martin, Chief Executive (CTCPN) (the "publisher") takes no responsibility for Carers Trust Cambridgeshire, the content of external websites whose addresses are published in the magazine. Peterborough, Norfolk Whilst every care was taken preparing this magazine, the publisher cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of the information or any consequence arising from it. Any written material or pictures supplied by contributors are published in good faith and on the understanding that they are free from copyright or other restrictions. The opinions expressed in the magazine are not necessarily those of the publisher. Permissions Material may not be reproduced in any form without the written consent of the publisher. 2 Do you need to take a break? A Family Carers’ Prescription can help you to Looking after How a Family Carers'find time: Prescription • to attend your important health someone? appointments Can Help You • to understand and learn more about your We can help Family Carers’ relatives illness through our health and well-being program Carers Trust Cambridgeshire & Do you know what support• tothere cope with emotions is and out feelings ifthere you to Prescription Peterborough are feeling overwhelmed Unit 4, Meadow Park, Meadow Lane help you in your caring role?• to avoid If crises the answer is ‘No’, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 4LG Looking after • to cope in an emergency T: 01480 499090 or 01733 645234 or ‘I’m not sure’, then you’re• to care not for your lovedthe one atonly the end of one.F: 01480 461133 someone? their illness E: [email protected] • to take a break. W: www.carerstrustcpn.org Who’s looking after Who are Carers Trust you? Cambridgeshire, Peterborough & Margaret, 82, from Sawtry was oneNorfolk? such included looking at what A local independent charity in the national person. Margaret cares for her husbandCarers Trust network - the largest providerfinancial of help was available practical support for carers in the UK. Registered Charity Number 1091522. John (84) who has a number of healthCarers Trust Cambridgeshire, Peterboroughfor both& West AngliaMargaret Crossroads Caring for Carersand (known her as Carers Norfolk is the leading local fully CQC Trust Cambridgeshire, Peterborough & Norfolk) is a company limited by guarantee. conditions. When his health deteriorated(Care Quality Commission) complianthusband. Registered As in England a and direct Wales Number 4379948.result organisation providing respite care All information correct at time of printing but subject to further Margaret was receiving no financialspecifically for family carers. of Gemma’schange at any time. advice, John is Photos © Carers Trust. Our aim is to help relieve the stresses of © Carers Trust Cambridgeshire, Peterborough & Norfolk, 2017 or physical help, apart from family andcaring by providing quality help andnow support in CSNATreceipt © 2009 University of Cambridge Attendance (Centre for Family Research)/The University of Manchester (School of Nursing, for family, unpaid, informal carers of all ages. Midwifery and Social Work). All rights reserved. Gail Ewing (Cambridge) and Gunn Grande (Manchester) have asserted friends. Margaret said. “I just didn’t know Allowancetheir moral rightwhich to be identified isas authors a ofbenefit the CSNAT. where to turn next. Then I met Gemma.” for peopleVer 6.0 overSeptember 65 2017 whoReview September 2018 may need extra help to stay Margaret’s GP had told her about Carers independent at home, due to an illness or Trust Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, disability. Norfolk (CTCPN) and the regular drop-ins for unpaid family carers. Margaret went to the Gemma also introduced Margaret to the one at Huntingdon Library run by Gemma Carers Group at Sawtry run by CARESCO Whitehouse, Carers Support Officer. (and supported by CTCPN) and she “Gemma was continues to go there regularly. “Gemma asked me what I needed,” She has also attended the Family Margaret said. “Then she gave me brilliant. At the time I Carers Hub at Ramsey a couple of advice on where I could get help and times as well. support.” didn't know where to turn “Gemma was brilliant. At the time I Margaret was experiencing a or who to go didn’t know where to turn or who to deterioration in her own physical and to. I cannot go to. I cannot believe how much mental health and was desperate for help there is out there for carers!” some relaxation and a break from believe how her caring role, allowing her to spend much help Finally, Margaret has this to say to some time with her family. Gemma there is out any carer who might be reluctant to was able to help Margaret to access there for access support “Absolutely go for a break through the Family Carers' carers” it. There is so much help out there." Prescription service. A Family Carers’ Prescription can help you to find The Family Carers' Prescription is a free time to: service provided by CTCPN for family carers attend your important health appointments of any age. It is funded by the local Clinical understand and learn more about your Commissioning Group (CCG). The scheme relatives illness through our health and well- being program enables staff at local GP surgeries to identify cope with emotions and feelings if you are family carers and refer them to CTCPN for feeling overwhelmed advice and support to help maintain health avoid crises and well being. cope in an emergency care for your loved one at the end of their Gemma arranged for Margaret’s GP to illness issue a Family Carers' Prescription for John take a break. to receive the care that he needed whilst If you think you would benefit from the she took a day off with her daughter and support available through a Family Carers' granddaughter. Prescription ask at your surgery or contact Gemma was also able to help Margaret to CTCPN on 01480 499090 to speak to one complete a Carer's Assessment to look at of our specialist advisors about the help the situation longer term. The assessment available to you. 3 Pride in Our Carers Awards 2018 Family Carers do a great job looking after their loved ones and we want to celebrate them and those that support them. The event is open to all unpaid Family Carers in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Nomination forms are available by calling 01480 499090, by emailing [email protected] or by visiting our website www.carerstrustcpn.org. We are delighted to announce The closing date for nominations is Monday 16th April 2018. the launch of Pride in our Carers Awards 2018 in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to celebrate the valued work of unpaid Family Carers and the organisations that support them. We are excited to announce that we are hosting this year’s event in Peterborough. Shortlisted finalists will be invited to a special awards ceremony at Kingsgate on Wednesday 13th June. We’ll also have plenty of practical information and advice on offer about the support and services available to family carers as well as some interactive sessions and interesting speakers so please hold the date and come along and join us.
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