Share by email" /> A carer is someone who provides care and support to a friend, family member, or neighbour when the person they care for cannot manage independently due to illness, disability, mental health issues, or addiction. For instance:
Caring can be both rewarding and challenging, impacting various aspects of a carer's life. It can affect their physical and emotional well-being, finances, relationships, and daily routines.
Each family situation is unique and Glasgow's carer services can provide support that the carer sees as important to them.
In Scotland, the legal term for a friend, family member, or neighbour looking after someone is an unpaid carer. You can ask for information and advice on supports under the Carer (Scotland) Act 2016.
There are a number of services in Glasgow providing a range of supports to carers.
Carer services are sensitive to individual need, treating people with courtesy and respect, ensuring confidentiality, promoting self-determination and not creating dependency.
They include information and advice, emotional support, training and short breaks.
If you know someone who is a carer, you can request carer supports on behalf of someone else.
There are a number of ways to find out how to get support if you're an unpaid carer in Glasgow City
Yes. Information is available in a variety of community languages on the Minority Ethnic Carers of People Project (MECOPP) website. You can also phone them on 0131 467 2994.
It is intended to help carers and those they help care for, as well as social workers and carer support staff, to be better informed about the assistance available to help carers and their families to achieve a break from caring.
It seeks to provide information about Glasgow's approach to short breaks for carers and how they can be accessed.
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