Social care

Today's Budget didn't contain any details of desperately needed investment in social care. Unpaid carers are still being taken for granted. This has to stop.

Ahead of next week’s Autumn Budget, we are drawing the attention of MPs to the need to make social care fairer for dementia carers.

Investment in improved diagnostic tools needs to be matched by investment in the care and support available to families after a dementia diagnosis.

We're delighted to announce that Dementia Carers Count has been awarded a generous grant of £19,834 from The National Lottery Community Fund – Awards for All England. This will allow us to reach and support even more unpaid dementia carers. 

People who use social care services, and those around them who support them through unpaid care, must be listened to by the Independent Commission for Adult Social Care

Dementia care has been given the prominence it deserves in the NHS 10 year plan

Additional funding for the NHS is welcome, but today's spending review continues to leave the burden of social care squarely on the shoulders of unpaid carers.

This Dementia Action Week, we're speaking out and we're speaking up for dementia carers who don't have any alternative care arrangements in place. This is the case for over three quarters of dementia carers.

Helen and her siblings struggled to support their mum when their dad, her main carer, received a cancer diagnosis and died a few weeks later.

Debbie has to continue her caring role however she is feeling. She has no time to look after her own health needs.

Elaine was struggling to remain conscious after being admitted to hospital, but needed to find care for her mum

Angela worries a lot about what would happen to her husband if she becomes ill