Dorset Council has launched the Carers Journal, a fantastic new resource designed to help you keep all your important information in one handy place!
This journal is packed with sections for contacts, emergency planning, health conditions, and details on GP and hospital appointments, as well as finance matters. Plus, it includes links to support services like us and Forward Carers, along with a FAQ section and glossary of terms.
Councillor Steve Robinson, Cabinet lead for Adult Social Care welcomed the additional help for carers.
“This journal acts as a useful resource for carers and, as well as providing useful contact details, acts as a care record, where each section has prompts for entering the key information that is often needed at times of consultation or crisis. Carers will find this useful when meeting with professionals and organisations, to document the contacts they have and the support they are receiving.”
“All too frequently carers are sometimes not sure of who to contact or when to do so. The journal includes a section called “what to do when”. This offers guidance on who provides support at different times and for various situations.”
Dorset Council has worked hard with unpaid carers throughout the county to put together the Carers Journal. One carer, Marmie, said:
“Looking back at the things that have been included in the journal, I was extremely glad that I filled it in when my husband had yet another fall a few weeks ago.”
“His medication as well as mine was listed as well as both our doctors and the names of practices and lists of those tablets he had been taking that hadn’t suited him. There was a list of his conditions and people he had seen and outcome of treatments.”
“It is so easy to get events and appointments out of sequence when trying to remember. It really saved me from having to rack my brains trying to remember dates and treatments when in panic mode. A very useful item,” she added.
For more details click here, or to access your own Carers Journal click here.
