This article presents tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on supporting carers in end-of-life care. The full guide sets out how social care practitioners can support carers as the person ...
Melanie Zeppel has received funding from the ARC (DECRA and Discovery grants), and is funded by an NHMRC research grant. Lukas Hofstätter works as a Research and Development Officer at Carers NSW, a ...
A surge in working age adults needing care has pushed Britain’s social care system to ‘breaking point’, a report warns. The study found the number of unpaid carers helping to prop-up the embattled ...
University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Increasingly, governments rely on family carers to provide aged and disability care services. For many, family ...
On European Carers Day, Merck reiterates its commitment to improving the livelihoods and working conditions of informal carers. Carers continue caring for their loved ones without fail year-round – we ...
An extra 400,000 people will be caring for their elderly, sick or disabled relatives for more than 10 hours a week by 2035, new analysis which lays bare the scale of social care needs in the UK ...
The number of foster carers in Victoria is continuing to decline with many carers citing financial stress as one of their biggest challenges. The Foster Care Association of Victoria has been ...
All people are carers, in some way or for some time. Routine caring is innate—we raise children, tend to sick relatives, look after aging parents, form bonds of love and friendship that hold caring as ...
The number of Britons working full time as unpaid carers has soared by 70% in a decade with nearly two million people caring for 35-plus hours a week. England’s social care system is at “breaking ...