Hi
I haven't written on this forum before but hoped someone might be able to help.
My lovely mum died in March after an awful fiasco for a year of her being moved from hospitals care home to hospital to care home to hospital. All of which was dreadfully upsetting, prior to this I had been a dedicated carer for more than three years. As you can imagine the combination of stress and grief hit me badly when mum died but I found my new totally vulnerable situation is distracting and contributing.
I had savings whilst caring for mum but mainly we lived off AA and CA both which stopped once she had been in hospital for several weeks. If the above mentioned hadn't happened I would have been okay because once mum was happily discharged into a caring care home I would have been able to start doing voluntary work and other paid jobs to supplement my savings and to create opportunities for references. As this didn't happened I have found that during a time when I feel totally miserable for losing such a wonderful mum I am also having to try to fight my way back into the working world. Now carers are tremendous people, I will always know that and so, I am sure, will all of you but out there in the big real world tell the job centre you were a carer and have lost confidence in your abilities to look for work and are they able to help in anyway and apparently I am no better than someone who has decided not to work for several years, you know the ones the Government keep talking about. The ones who don't want to work - really! I and all of you probably did more work than most people do. Anyway, my question is, does anyone k ow of a scheme, friendly organisation or anyone who would be open to helping not only myself but any other former carer who doesn't have a partner to support them. Thanks for your help.
I haven't written on this forum before but hoped someone might be able to help.
My lovely mum died in March after an awful fiasco for a year of her being moved from hospitals care home to hospital to care home to hospital. All of which was dreadfully upsetting, prior to this I had been a dedicated carer for more than three years. As you can imagine the combination of stress and grief hit me badly when mum died but I found my new totally vulnerable situation is distracting and contributing.
I had savings whilst caring for mum but mainly we lived off AA and CA both which stopped once she had been in hospital for several weeks. If the above mentioned hadn't happened I would have been okay because once mum was happily discharged into a caring care home I would have been able to start doing voluntary work and other paid jobs to supplement my savings and to create opportunities for references. As this didn't happened I have found that during a time when I feel totally miserable for losing such a wonderful mum I am also having to try to fight my way back into the working world. Now carers are tremendous people, I will always know that and so, I am sure, will all of you but out there in the big real world tell the job centre you were a carer and have lost confidence in your abilities to look for work and are they able to help in anyway and apparently I am no better than someone who has decided not to work for several years, you know the ones the Government keep talking about. The ones who don't want to work - really! I and all of you probably did more work than most people do. Anyway, my question is, does anyone k ow of a scheme, friendly organisation or anyone who would be open to helping not only myself but any other former carer who doesn't have a partner to support them. Thanks for your help.