{"id":10851,"date":"2020-11-10T14:01:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T14:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillingtonprimary\/?p=10851"},"modified":"2020-11-10T14:01:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T14:01:27","slug":"support-in-difficult-times-for-unpaid-carers-and-employers-of-personal-assistants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillingtonprimary\/2020\/11\/10\/support-in-difficult-times-for-unpaid-carers-and-employers-of-personal-assistants\/","title":{"rendered":"Support in difficult times for unpaid carers and employers of Personal Assistants."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10852\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/hillingtonprimary\/uploads\/sites\/9555\/2020\/11\/10140109\/HWB-CARERS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Support in difficult times for unpaid carers and employers of Personal Assistants. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many things have changed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and people\u2019s <em>wellbeing <\/em>is now more important than ever. In response, Scotland&#8217;s National Wellbeing Hub <a href=\"http:\/\/www.promis.scot\">www.promis.scot<\/a> has been set up for everyone who has a responsibility to provide support to others, including unpaid carers.\u00a0 The Hub offers advice and support to help people adapt and cope with the day-to-day challenges being experienced such as isolation, anxiety, fatigue, poor sleep. Within the Hub there are lots of information, resources and activities to promote positive wellbeing and provide practical advice and tips on how to look after yourself. There is a designated page of information for\u00a0<strong>unpaid carers<\/strong>\u00a0to find help and support. There is also information for people who employ personal assistants, with links to organisations who can provide advice and guidance regarding self-directed support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A chance to learn more<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are an <strong>unpaid carer<\/strong> you are invited to attend a web session to learn more about the Hub and a programme called Feeling Good, which focusses on building personal resilience to cope with stress, anxiety, low mood. The sessions will be held online on <strong>Tuesday 24 November (at 4 pm) and Wednesday 25 November (at 7 pm). <\/strong>They will be run by Dr Alastair Dobbin and Sheila Ross who developed the programme. If you would like to attend one of these sessions please click the relevant links below:<\/p>\n<p>To attend the session on <strong>Tuesday 24<sup>th<\/sup> November at 4 pm<\/strong>, click and register via the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/help-for-carers-relaxing-de-stressing-with-the-free-feeling-good-app-tickets-125596248761\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/help-for-carers-relaxing-de-stressing-with-the-free-feeling-good-app-tickets-125596248761<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To attend the session on <strong>Wednesday 25<sup>th<\/sup> November at 7 pm<\/strong>, click and register via the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/help-for-carers-relaxing-de-stressing-with-the-free-feeling-good-app-tickets-125600489445\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/help-for-carers-relaxing-de-stressing-with-the-free-feeling-good-app-tickets-125600489445<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support in difficult times for unpaid carers and employers of Personal Assistants. Many things have changed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and people\u2019s wellbeing is now more important than ever. In response, Scotland&#8217;s National Wellbeing Hub www.promis.scot has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillingtonprimary\/2020\/11\/10\/support-in-difficult-times-for-unpaid-carers-and-employers-of-personal-assistants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3,6,5,7,8,10,11,12,14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parent-council-news","category-primary-1a","category-primary-2a","category-primary-3-2-2","category-primary-3","category-primary-4a","category-primary-5a","category-primary-6b","category-primary-6a","category-primary-7b","category-primary-7a"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillingtonprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillingtonprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillingtonprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillingtonprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillingtonprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillingtonprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10853,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillingtonprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851\/revisions\/10853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillingtonprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillingtonprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/hillingtonprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}