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Lasting Powers of Attorney: Cautionary advice

” Don’t put it off.Please don’t end up in our situation – it’s traumatic, costly, time consuming and mentally draining” Why are Lasting Powers of Att...

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Jackie and Adam during carers week

Carers Week 23: The Carents Room

As part of our contribution and preparation for Carers Week 2023, we have been developing and sharing our support for Carents across the UK.   D...

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Emily Cutter  who is the Homeshare UK Services Coordinator for the North East region.

The Carents Room explores Homeshare UK

Loneliness in later life – how can Homeshare help? Earlier this year, at an “innovation in ageing” event, we met Emily Cutter who is the Homeshare UK...

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Carents room infographic with Cadent and NGN

An exciting new partnership

We have joined forces with three top U.K. energy distributors – Northern Gas Networks (NGN), Cadent, and UKPower Networks (UKPN) – in a collabor...

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Jackie at an  Internet of Caring Things workshop

Connecting to Care

This month we were honoured to be invited to an event organised by the Internet of Caring Things (IoCT).  The IoCT is hosted by the Na...

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New features in The Carents Room

This month we have been busy decorating The Carents Room.  There’s a lot more going on behind the scenes but these are some of the most obv...

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More calls to change and improve care

Are we reaching a tipping point? When we launched The Carents Room, it seemed like we were a relatively lone voice, crying out for better support for...

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New Year: more support for you!

2022 was a great year for The Carents Room with lots of positive support and recognition.  We met some incredible carents and advocates for care...

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The State of Care in England

The Care Quality Commission (CQC)  recently published their annual “State of Care” report for the year 2021/22.    The findi...

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Healthy ageing: adding life to years

The Carents Room is part of a wider global neighbourhood of individuals and organisations who recognise the challenges of ageing and want to make thi...

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