Your frame When does a parent become an unpaid carer?
- Some initial considerations
- Carer diversity
- You in the frame
- Local focus
1 Some initial considerations
The text under the graphic is just the start of many questions carers face. In the event of an accident, the question of when doesn't arise. A person in your life suddenly becomes a caree and has new needs.
A new offspring arrives and is soon identified as having carer needs beyond you being a parent, grandparent etc.
In contrast,
everything seems normal until you begin to notice that an important person in your life is going down hill.
a routine visit to the surgery or hospital produces unexpected outcomes.
2 Carer diversity
All this points to the sheer diversity of the types of carers and their specific situations. The one-stop shop ideal obviously needs to be interpreted as an ideal. The website author is working with two broad aims as in 1 & 3:
- The site provides a framework of resources where a lot of the donkey-work has been done more at No.3 here
- The site provides an overview of what can be useful in one county/principal area so that those outside it can see what to look for in their own
- To provide a satellite website where the results of No. 3 can be easily found. That will take time and you being in the frame. Your views are important. more at No.4 here