Etiket: carers
Tangenborgh asks family and carers for help during the summer
Zorggroep Tangenborgh asks family and carers of clients to lend a hand during the months of July and August. Due to increasing staff shortages in healthcare and absenteeism, any help…
Child carers under heavy pressure after recent scandals: “’And, are they also being beaten here?’, people ask me now”
You will work as a childcare worker and be bombarded every day with news about closures and abuses. While the vast majority of them take care of all children with…
Nicole helps the elderly in Zoetermeer: ’We allow carers to do fun things again’
Caring for a loved one is a matter of course for many people. But have you ever considered that 1 in 3 people is a caregiver? In Zoetermeer there are…
7 tips to better cope with the diagnosis of dementia (also for carers)
Dragonfly together with Alzheimer Netherlands 1 in 5 people develop dementia, and in women this is even 1 in 3. This means that almost everyone will have to deal with…
Response to housing shortage: Let informal carers take a parent into their home without financial punishment
‘What a good idea from Schiphol to cut a large percentage of journeys’ and ‘You just stay away from the media, period!’: these are some reactions to news topics that…
MantelzorgNL: elder abuse by overburdened informal carers
From hiding mail to tying up an elderly person with dementia: according to the interest group MantelzorgNL, informal care can derail into domestic violence or elder abuse when informal caregivers…
For more than half of informal carers, care comes at the expense of work
More than half of all informal carers in North Holland had to cancel work once or several times in the past year because of caring responsibilities for a loved one.…
Gooie carers often run into problems due to a maze of authorities
Informal carers in ‘t Gooi regularly miss the right support, according to research by NH Nieuws with several carers and aid organizations. Supply and demand of the available support often…
Mother to pension: carers also need rest | 1Limburg
Caring for a loved one can be very stressful. Logeerhuis Kapstok in Venray is a guest house where informal carers can bring their partner or parent. The caregiver is ‘always…
Buurtzorg structurally gives nurses and carers a better salary
All ten thousand nurses and carers of home care organization Buurtzorg receive a structurally better salary. Director Jos de Blok will place them all in a higher scale as of…