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Inclusive design for later life

On the basis of his vision for inclusive design for later life, we are nominating Jeremy Myerson as a Carents Room hero.  His ideas echo our own...

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Carers week 7-13th June 2021

Carers Week

Carers week was a big focus for The Carents Room in June – an opportunity to join forces with our stakeholders and profile our commitment to carers...

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Reforming social care

Reforming social care – what’s all the fuss about? Despite growing demands from experts, users, carers and charities, along with a 2019 promise by...

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Innovation in ageing: a co-creation project

Working with schools to design a better tomorrow. We have been working with Dame Allan’s Schools in Newcastle to co-create a course to promote inno...

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Our online community has been recognised

Our online community for carents has been shortlisted for three awards! We had special reason to celebrate on International Women’s Day with the exci...

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The carer film

Carer support: Raising the profile with film

The Carer – a short film highlighting the need to support carers We are not alone in our efforts to improve carer support . Many others who experienc...

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A digital community for #carents

Our digital community is growing – #carents Our carents community is growing far beyond The Carents Room website and right across the digital communi...

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Population ageing - are we ready?

Seven years ago, the House of Lords concluded that the UK was “woefully underprepared for ageing” In 2013, a House of Lords select committee chaired...

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Caring for parents - modern day challenges

Caring for parents is more complicated nowadays Historically, caring for parents has always been core family business, but major shifts in society me...

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