Caring connections in America
New Year and lots of new activity in The Carents Room. Our caring connections are growing on multiple fronts and in multiple regions. On...
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The Carents Room - an award winning digital community!
It was a night of celebrations for The Carents Room with multiple accolades at the Digital Women Awards ceremony 2021. We were all win...
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Carers Rights Day: support for carents
Carents have the same rights as carers Today is carers rights day in the UK – whether you are a carent, young carer, spouse carer, or parent carer, y...
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Aged or ageing? Old or elderly?
Exploring the language of an ageing society The everyday language of old age can be controversial and inadequate. Descriptions like elderly, ageing o...
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Digital exclusion in later life
Off line or frozen out? Accelerated by COVID, the use of digital technology is growing exponentially and many of us are reaping the incredible benef...
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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
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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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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