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Nutrition and Palliative Care

19/09/2016

As a live in carer you will one day be with a client who is approaching the End of Life. This stage is called the Palliative Care stage. It can be very distressing for your client, most certainly for the family and also to you as a carer. ...

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Maintaining your Clients Dignity

19/09/2016

Being a carer means that the person you are caring for can no longer take care of themselves. This degree of need will of course vary with each individual client, but basically you are there because they cannot do things for themselves any longer. ...

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How to Work in a Double Carer Post

19/09/2016

Sooner or later in your vocation as a live in carer you will be sent to either a client who needs to carers or to a couple who needs to have two carers looking after them. ...

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Cofidentiality and your Client

09/19/2016

It is very important when you go to live with any client that you are aware of how much information you are now privy to. You will have access to all private details about your client and perhaps even to their financial records. ...

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Keeping on the Right Side of your Client and Family

15/09/2016

Families can be complicated at the best of times – as we all know – with every member being different in how they think and what they like. Everyone is settled into their own routine and they all have very definite ideas of how things should be run. ...

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How to Keep a Positive Attitude While Caring

13/09/2016

Whilst live in care is an extremely rewarding job and also one of the most satisfying jobs, it can also be an extremely stressful time for a live in carer. ...

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Upstairs or Downstairs for your Client

12/09/2016

You might find yourself in a position one day where it is no longer practical for you to move your client upstairs at night and back downstairs in the morning. This may be due to a general decline in health which could mean that balance is affected. ...

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Travelling to your Caring Job

12/09/2016

One of the questions which will spring into your mind after the initial excitement of being allocated a new client is how to get there. ...

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Factors that Influence Where you Work

06/09/2016

Most companies will at some point in your training, have an interview where they review your skills, what your strong points are, who you would prefer to work with and where you would choose to go and work. ...

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Most Care Workers Pay Brought into Line with the National Living Wage

01/09/2016

Over 80% of workers who had previously been paid below the National Living Wage of £7.20 which was introduced in April are now enjoying pay above the amount, despite the fact that it has not been legally enforced, according to an independent think-tank called ‘resolution foundation'. ...

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