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Wellbeing
There is a need to improve carer assessments and to do more to ensure services that support the cared for person are accessible and available (for example rapid response services to support people with night care during acute episodes and emergencies, respite services, support for people in a crisis and transitional services for children and young people).
Programmes aimed at maintaining general wellbeing of carers should also be considered. One such programme was piloted by the Mid Wales Healthcare Collaborative in partnership with Ceredigion County Council’s Carers Unit and HDUHB’s IiC Scheme over an eight week period in autumn 2016. A training programme entitled ‘Caring for the Third Workforce: The Resilience and Wellbeing of Carers’ was developed aimed at building resilience and improving the wellbeing of Carers across Ceredigion. This was the first time this exciting and well trusted training programme has been adapted and trialled with Carers in the whole of the UK; Ceredigion was specifically chosen as an area with a rural dispersed population. Carers had the opportunity to be one of the first in the UK to take part. The resilience pathway considered the effects of isolation, stress and identity. The methodology enabled the Carers to develop a situational analysis process regarding stress levels, as a means of always finding a way back to their “best self” as the core resilience pathway. The outcomes of the robustly evaluated pilot with the participants indicated significant and sustainable improvements in a positive mind set and self-help, identified by the carers through their own analysis and that of the researcher as to their improved resilience. The participants have continued to meet into 2017 since course completion as a support group with their own identity ’Caring Friends‘. There is significant ongoing interest and commitment to further trials for the model of delivery to support further roll out, both from Carers and professionals, it has potential for Carers in the Workforce and Young Carers. The Report will be shared with the Mid Wales Collaborative and the West Wales Regional Partnership Board. The research is to be discussed at the BMJ International Conference in July 2017, and with the Welsh Government. It is also a training programme under discussion with Academi Wales as a tool to support the resilience of the workforce and the Carers within that environment in Spring 2017 for further development.
Co-production
Support the role of user-led services including:
• Createlocalcarerco-operativesthatcancommissionservicesthatbestmeettheir needs
• WorkwithcarersthroughCarerForumsontheco-productionofservices
West Wales Population Assessment March 2017 Carers