April is Stress Awareness Month, a chance to all of us to think about how stress affects our lives. For unpaid carers, stress is often not an occasional problem but a constant background pressure—a part of everyday responsibilities, routines and worries. Caring...
Winter often brings some extra challenges. Between managing your care responsibilities and coping with rising energy costs, making sure that you are staying warm feels like another difficult decision. But keeping warm isn’t just about comfort—it’s about health,...
Winter can be a challenging season for carers. Shorter days, colder weather, and the demands of caring responsibilities often combine to create feelings of fatigue and isolation. Amid these pressures, the Danish concept of hygge offers a refreshing perspective—a way...
Caring for someone with dementia is a journey filled with both rewarding moments and daily challenges. With memory lapses, confusion, and changes in behaviour often part of the experience, it can sometimes feel overwhelming for carers and families. Fortunately,...
Why Setting Boundaries Is Essential for Carers Too busy looking after someone else to take care of yourself? Your caring role taking over every aspect of your life? It’s not unusual, and carers often overlook one crucial aspect of their own well-being: setting...
Lots of us are on WhatsApp Groups these days. WhatsApp provides a very easy way to keep up with people, ask questions, get information and much more all from our ‘phone. And it is not that intrusive. You can mute notifications or just archive groups if you...
