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Putting carents on the map - China

As part of our mission to put carents on the map, we are exploring life for the carenting generation globally.  This week the focus is on China.&...

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The Carents Room in Pharmacies across England

Over the last two months we have been featuring  specially designed medicine bags and leaflets in pharmacies across England. The medicine bags an...

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Supporting Carents in the workplace

We were delighted to support the staff Thrive sub group “Parents and carers” at Cadent Gas who delivered a “Lunch and Learn” session focusing on recog...

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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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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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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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