Carer Support Wiltshire - Courage to Care
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Carer Support Wiltshire’s Courage to Care team work with a network of trained support officers and volunteers from within the military community to help identify and support carers from serving military families. The Courage to Care service has been made possible thanks to a grant from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust.
Looking after someone can be a positive and rewarding experience, but it can also be exhausting, stressful and isolating. Many carers feel that they can’t take a break because the person they look after can’t be left alone. Caring for someone may also have a negative impact on your relationships with family and friends, finances and health. But they can support you in and outside of your caring role.
According to the Army Welfare Service and Army Family Federation the majority of those looking after loved ones within the Armed Forces may not be aware that help is available or may not even consider themselves carers. But if you look after a loved one that relies on you for help, whether it’s a brother, sister, wife, husband, partner, parent, grandparent or neighbour, there is help available to you.
See the Courage to Care Leaflet for further information.
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