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About The Carents Room

The Carents Room is committed to transforming ageing by supporting Carents and unleashing Carent power.

Carents?

Our word for mid life children providing care for elderly relatives in the community.

Carenting?

Our word for the multitude of activities carents undertake as first aiders, homemakers, care coordinators, personal shoppers, chauffeurs, secretaries and financial or legal advisers.

The Carents Room

Our mission is to make carenting and ageing a happier, healthier and more engaged experience.

Founded by Dr Jackie Gray, a dually qualified GP and Consultant in Public Health Medicine, with over 30 years of experience tackling the consequences of ageing in individuals and communities. Using insights from the direct experience of caring for her elderly father and being supported by others in similar roles.

Jackie’s experience showed that ageing and caring in the UK can be isolating and challenging, compounded by a shortage of suitable information, services, products and experiences which could make life easier for busy carents and their ageing parents.

The Carents Room has been informed by the available research and expert public health guidance on supporting elderly parents. It has tips with what to expect, what to ask and where to go for expert advice and help. The information is available 24/7 and developed to NHS information standards.

The Carents Room is a trading name of Strata Nostra Limited. All content is copyright as Strata Nostra Limited, a health & care consultancy (Dr Jackie Gray is a Director).

The first website dedicated to carents and carenting!

Dr Jackie Gray – Trailblazer of carenting: “I realised that, although there is a global commitment to tackle ageing, current strategies do not adequately support carents or realise their value. With more recognition and support, carents can better safeguard their own and their parents wellbeing, reduce avoidable pressures on frontline services, and shape the development of suitable ageing products.

I created The Carents Room to give carents the support and opportunities they need to make life better for themselves, their parents and our ageing society.”

Founded in 2020, The Carents Room is committed to quality and transparency, respect and equality. If you share these values and want to support carents or improve ageing, then please join us.

Welcome to The Carents Room!

About our content

 

Our content is NOT intended as, nor should it be used as, a substitute for medical advice.  Anyone with medical problems should seek personalised professional advice from a suitably qualified health care professional.

Our content is underpinned by the NHS England Information Standard principles.  It is based on published best practice and tailored to reflect the concerns of mid life adults who are caring for their elderly relatives living in the UK so that they can:

  1. Identify and access resources which could improve health, wellbeing, independence, and quality of life for their elderly relatives
  2. Identify and access resources which could improve their own health, wellbeing and quality of life and help them plan for their old age
  3. Understand more about ageing and how to modify its impact on health, wellbeing, independence, and quality of life
  4. Shape the socio-political environment in the UK to promote safety, health& wellbeing, and independence for older people

 

How you may use content on our site

Strata Nostra Limited, trading as The Carents Room, is the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world.  All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, or any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others to content posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from the accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

 

 Our trademarks

CARENTS, CARENTING and CARENTS ROOM are all  UK registered trade marks of Strata Nostra Limited.  You are not permitted to use these trade marks without our approval, unless it is part of material you are using as permitted under “How you may use material on our site” above.

An independent, online platform

Powered by a combination of professional expertise and real life experience, focused on the needs, roles and lives of carents. All of The Carents Room information is professional, objective and practical. Written by experts in health and care, our content is based on best practice and evidence and directly informed by carents.

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We are open to working with stakeholders, designers, influencers and suppliers from a wide range of sectors – the arts, humanities, science, technology, health and care – who share our values and our goals.

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For press enquiries please call: 01325 486666 or email [email protected]

 

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Information and guides

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