Carers Advice

Carer Health Trainer Service

Are you looking after someone and want to get healthier?

The Carer Health Trainer service has both personal and professional experience in caring for someone.  

Caring can be very rewarding but it can have a detrimental impact on your own health.  The Carer Health Trainers have a wealth of training and expertise to support you.

The services is free.  Find out more below.

Healthy You Carer Health Trainer Leaflet.pdf

Healthy You - Meet the Team

Carers and Caring

 

There is a wealth of information on the NHS website about carers and caring. Below are some links into the site that we hope you will find useful.

 

Finance and Law

Help claiming benefits, looking after your bank balance and understanding the legal issues of caring.

  • Benefits for carers

    Directing carers to the benefits that can help them in their caring role

  • Benefits for the under-65s

    Advice and information on helping the person you look after get the benefits that they are entitled to.

    Benefits for the over-65s

    Advice and information on financial support for older people with a disability or illness.

  • Carer's Assement

    How your benefits maybe affected after the death of the person you look after and what happens to their benefits

  • Other benefits

    Advice for carers and the people they are looking after on claiming a whole host of other benefits unrelated to their disability or caring

Carers UK

They’re here to make sure that no matter how complicated your query or your experience, you don’t have to care alone.

Telephone: 020 7378 4999

Website: www.carersuk.org

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