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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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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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Essential Tips for Carents to Plan for That Unexpected Emergency
eBook: Helping You Look After Your Loved Ones The Carents Room is committed to helping you and your loved ones stay safe and well. The purpose of t...
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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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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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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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