Life After Caring

After your caring role has come to an end, Carer Support West Cumbria will continue to support you for an additional 12 months.

The Life After Caring project aims to help you focus and have time for yourself. This could be the first time in a very long time you have had time just for you.

We hope that, with the support of others who understand how caregiving impacted your ability to focus on yourself, we can develop the project into a positive experience for everyone.

What the Life After Caring Project offers:

Emotional and practical support
Social events in your local community
Sign-posting to local groups
Improving your emotional and physical wellbeing
Sign-posting to external organisations to provide additional support to yourself
Training and educational courses to assist you starting back into employment (where applicable)
Quarterly newsletter

Adult Carers

Adult Carers care for other adults over the age of 18. This includes adults caring for their adult children.
Young Carers

Young Carers are children and young people between the ages of 5 and 18 who provide regular and on-going care and/or emotional support to a family member who is physically or mentally ill, disabled or has an addiction.
Parent Carers

Parent Carers are those caring for a disabled child or young person under the age of 18. Parents will often see themselves primarily as parents, however their child will have additional care needs and may be entitled to additional services.
Working Carers

Working Carers are people in full or part-time employment, who also provide care for another person. Supporting Carers to remain in work can bring considerable benefits to Carers themselves, employers and the wider economy.
Sandwich Carers

Sandwich Carers have more than one caring responsibility; for example, Carers could be caring for two family members, such as an elderly relative and a dependent child or a spouse (Carers UK 2012).