An unpaid carer has become the first Briton in the UK to receive the Moderna vaccine. Elle Taylor, from Ammanford, got the jab at the West Wales General Hospital in
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The Government has been heavily defeated in the Lords over cross-party demands for disabled people to be protected from abuse by carers. Peers backed an amendment extending protections under the
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Carers will be offered the chance to get their first Covid-19 jab as the vaccination programme moves into a new phase in England on Monday. They join clinically vulnerable people
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Carer’s allowance should be raised by £1,000 a year due to the coronavirus outbreak, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has said. The former Cabinet minister said such a move
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Only one in eight unpaid carers say they are getting enough support from the social care system, with many exhausted, lonely and worried about their finances, research has suggested. Two-thirds
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Family and friends have spent 92 million extra hours caring for loved ones with dementia since the coronavirus lockdown and are struggling with depression, insomnia and exhaustion, a charity has
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Families caring for disabled adults feel “forgotten” and “fobbed off” during the coronavirus pandemic, a survey has indicated. Three-quarters of families caring for a loved one at home had no
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Two in three employers say they want more support from care services to help keep staff at work, according to a new survey. Research by charity Carers UK shows most
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Helping frail elderly people manage multiple medicines safely is the focus of a new research project led by Dr Beth Fylan, Senior Lecturer in Patient Safety in the Faculty of Life Sciences at
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Family carers should be given key worker status and regular coronavirus tests, a charity has said, as dementia sufferers’ symptoms continue to worsen. More than four in five adults with
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