When A Person Is Not A Carer Essay
TMA01.
Why can it be difficult to decide whether or not a person is a carer, and does it matter???
There are between six and seven million people in the u.k who provide extra help to family, friends or neighbours that are elderly or suffering from mental or physical illness. It is very important to recognise these carers, as they need support which could include financial help, mental support or even training.
It can be difficult to decide if a person is a carer or not, there seems to be clear cut answers. However this isn’t always the case, it is important to be able to know who is or isn’t a carer so that they are able to receive the help and support that may be needed. The person i’m going to write about is someone I know who …show more content…
looked after their father, just like Anne does with angus. The person who looks after their father is Rhian and her father is called reg. It all started with Reg when his wife died, he started to drink a lot and wouldn’t leave the house, so rhian started to go round everyday to check on him, she would ask him to go for a bath as he wouldn’t be looking after himself properly, wasn’t very clean and tidy. After about a year of rhain doing this for her father, reg was diagnosed with liver cancer which started to spread across his body. Overtime, Reg’ s condition deteriorated meaning rhian’s caring duties changed which ment gave up her job to look after her father full time. Rhian is carer and does meet the government definition, which states: The word carer means someone who looks after a friend, relative or neighbour who needs support because of their sickness, age or disability. However if rhian is feeling unwell or has to go somewhere then rhian’s daughter Jess comes and sits with her taid to keep him company. When trying to decide if someone is or is not a carer, there is the possibility that there is more than one person doing the care, for example Rhian ’s 19 year old daughter Jess will sometimes come and keep Reg company as well as do little jobs around the house for her taid while she’s there. Does this mean that rhian’s daughter should be classed as a carer also? I don’t think she is as it’s something you would do for your family if they are ill, without needing to label them as a carer. Also when trying to decide if someone is a carer or not is that not everybody who is a carer, views themselves as one.
They may see what they do as a duty because of family ties, friendship or something similar. Rhian chose to look after her father because he is her father and she didn’t want anyone else to look after him but her. In the care of Anne and Angus , Anne did what she did for Angus because he was her father and she had mad a promise to her mother on her deathbed.
Anne and Angus’s situation is very similar to the people that I know rhian and reg. Rhian has to give reg his medication and certain times, she cleans his house for him, does personal care like bath him which I gather that was very hard for both of them to begin with, bathing your father but it’s something you would do for your family as I have bathed my nain when she was alive, and to me I did that out of love my for my nain, but people might of seen me as carer for doing that. Even if they didn’t have these problems, who’s to say that the person being cared for is willing or able to view themselves as needing care. That can create problems in the carer getting the support they need. For example to qualify for carer’s allowance, the person being cared for needs to either be on disability allowance or attendance
allowance. Rhain at one stage did ask for help off social services for someone to come and help once a week but as reg has a lot of savings he would have had to pay for that care himself, so rhian decided against it as that is her fathers money which himself and her mother have worked hard to get and felt the government should pay not her father. In my conclusion, I feel it’s very hard to actually define whether or not someone is a carer and even then they may not receive the all the help that they need, like reg’s situation he would have had to pay for his home help which I think is wrong, he has paid enough taxes over the years for him to get his home help to be paid for him. In my case that I have wrote about to some people rhian is reg’s full time carer but to her she is looking after her father like any other person would do for their family, people may look at it as her job.
Why can it be difficult to decide whether or not a person is a carer, and does it matter???
There are between six and seven million people in the u.k who provide extra help to family, friends or neighbours that are elderly or suffering from mental or physical illness. It is very important to recognise these carers, as they need support which could include financial help, mental support or even training.
It can be difficult to decide if a person is a carer or not, there seems to be clear cut answers. However this isn’t always the case, it is important to be able to know who is or isn’t a carer so that they are able to receive the help and support that may be needed. The person i’m going to write about is someone I know who …show more content…
looked after their father, just like Anne does with angus. The person who looks after their father is Rhian and her father is called reg. It all started with Reg when his wife died, he started to drink a lot and wouldn’t leave the house, so rhian started to go round everyday to check on him, she would ask him to go for a bath as he wouldn’t be looking after himself properly, wasn’t very clean and tidy. After about a year of rhain doing this for her father, reg was diagnosed with liver cancer which started to spread across his body. Overtime, Reg’ s condition deteriorated meaning rhian’s caring duties changed which ment gave up her job to look after her father full time. Rhian is carer and does meet the government definition, which states: The word carer means someone who looks after a friend, relative or neighbour who needs support because of their sickness, age or disability. However if rhian is feeling unwell or has to go somewhere then rhian’s daughter Jess comes and sits with her taid to keep him company. When trying to decide if someone is or is not a carer, there is the possibility that there is more than one person doing the care, for example Rhian ’s 19 year old daughter Jess will sometimes come and keep Reg company as well as do little jobs around the house for her taid while she’s there. Does this mean that rhian’s daughter should be classed as a carer also? I don’t think she is as it’s something you would do for your family if they are ill, without needing to label them as a carer. Also when trying to decide if someone is a carer or not is that not everybody who is a carer, views themselves as one.
They may see what they do as a duty because of family ties, friendship or something similar. Rhian chose to look after her father because he is her father and she didn’t want anyone else to look after him but her. In the care of Anne and Angus , Anne did what she did for Angus because he was her father and she had mad a promise to her mother on her deathbed.
Anne and Angus’s situation is very similar to the people that I know rhian and reg. Rhian has to give reg his medication and certain times, she cleans his house for him, does personal care like bath him which I gather that was very hard for both of them to begin with, bathing your father but it’s something you would do for your family as I have bathed my nain when she was alive, and to me I did that out of love my for my nain, but people might of seen me as carer for doing that. Even if they didn’t have these problems, who’s to say that the person being cared for is willing or able to view themselves as needing care. That can create problems in the carer getting the support they need. For example to qualify for carer’s allowance, the person being cared for needs to either be on disability allowance or attendance
allowance. Rhain at one stage did ask for help off social services for someone to come and help once a week but as reg has a lot of savings he would have had to pay for that care himself, so rhian decided against it as that is her fathers money which himself and her mother have worked hard to get and felt the government should pay not her father. In my conclusion, I feel it’s very hard to actually define whether or not someone is a carer and even then they may not receive the all the help that they need, like reg’s situation he would have had to pay for his home help which I think is wrong, he has paid enough taxes over the years for him to get his home help to be paid for him. In my case that I have wrote about to some people rhian is reg’s full time carer but to her she is looking after her father like any other person would do for their family, people may look at it as her job.