Pathways Carer Support Service

Do you care for someone who is in the last 6 months of their life and sometimes feel as though you need someone to care about you? Would you like help with the practical things, someone to talk to or just time for yourself? Interested? Yes? Then please read on...

Pathways Carer Support Service is a free, fully funded service which is tailored to suit your needs, so the type and level of support you receive, depends very much on what you want.

What we offer

Below is just a small selection of the kind of things we can do:

• Offer you a short-term respite break (up to 4 hours per week) from caring by providing professionally-trained care support workers.
• Give you someone to talk to about your worries and feelings. This could be in your own home or in the community.
• Help you sort out any areas of concern you may have such as housing, finances, debt, getting aids and adaptions, employment, legal advice and social activities.
• Help you to feel more confident about what you do.
• Help you with identifying and/or accessing other services which may be of benefit to you or the person you care for.
• Help you to prepare emotionally and practically for you bereavement.
• Provision of emergency care and support at a time of crisis.
• Provision of the service, free of charge.

About the service

• Provides support to unpaid carers.
• The carer and the person being cared for must be over the age of 18 to access the service.
• Must be registered with a GP Practice in Nottinghamshire or Bassetlaw.
• Helps you to feel more confident about what you do.
• Supports carers of patients that are at the end of their life, regardless of diagnosis.