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  • Gateway to care
    Services working together aim to help you, your family and friends get the health and social care information and support you need, all under one roof.
  • Support for people with dementia
    Information for people who are worried about or affected by Alzheimers and dementia.
  • Emergency Duty Service
    Definition, remit, hours of service, contact info
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  • Contacts
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    Find a care home in Kirklees
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Carers

Gateway to care - August 2011
gatewaytocare@kirklees.gov.uk

Information for carers

Becoming a carer
Information on taking on a caring role, support for you, day care, travel and more.
Who is a carer? A definition
Definition and different types of carer including adult carer, parent carer, young carer, older carer, working carer and mutual carers.
What is the Kirklees Carers Gateway?
About Carers Gateway support, information and events.
Carers-led assessment
A person-led assessment is a way of you telling us what your social care needs are.
Shared Lives
Some people in our community need a bit more support to be able to live an everyday life and make the choices they want. Often they are supported by family carers to do this and these carers also need support.
Carers digistories
These stories are told by carers in their own words with personal pictures full of memories, some sad and some happy.
Short term breaks
Short term breaks offer carers the chance to take break from caring for a disabled, ill, or frail elderly person.
Carers Emergency Support Service (CESS)
CESS is a service set up to support carers in times of emergency or personal crisis to provide peace of mind re-assurance.
Course for carers - Looking after me
A free course for unpaid carers, to help carers feel more in control.
Advocacy
Carers Gateway is a council service so it cannot offer an independent advocacy service to carers. Specialist organisations will offer advocacy.
Information for young carers
Information and support for young carers.

Contact Information

General enquiries form
Make an enquiry or request a newsletter.
Contact us
Where to find us, drop-in information, office opening hours and other ways to contact Carers Gateway.
Events booking form
Reserve a place on an event.

Information for professionals

Kirklees Carers Vision and Strategy 2010 - 2015 "A Vision for our Lives"
This strategy sets out an action plan for the work needed over the next five years.
National Carers Strategy
A strategy from the Department of Health.
Overview of carers rights
An overview of carers rights from the Directgov website.
Legal rights of carers
Publications available for carers on the Carers UK website.
Dementia facts for carers
Factsheets for carers about where to get help with legal and financial issues, care homes, medical care and resourses.

Live life to the full

Caring for someone else (PDF: 664kb)
Live life to the full Section
Chapter 4 - Caring for someone else.
From the Live Life to the Full campaign for ages 50+

Carers Gateway: In Caring Company newsletter

Live life to the full Section

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