A Carer's Assessment is an opportunity for you to have a conversation about your caring role ,explain what support you need, whether you're willing or able to carry on caring, what you want to achieve in your daily life and whether you qualify for additional help. Is caring impacting your health and wellbeing?
The assessor will discuss how caring affects your life, including your physical, mental and emotional needs. They should cover: your role as a carer. how you feel about caring.
A Carer's Assessment will include the following: Our caring role and how it affects our own life and wellbeing. Our health – including physical, mental and emotional issues. Consider the things we want to achieve in our own day to day life. Our feelings and if we are able or willing to carry on caring.
An adult or young person with possible care and support needs or a carer may choose to refuse to have an assessment.
What is an online Carers Self-assessment. This online self-assessment is used to gather information about an informal carer supporting someone living within Suffolk who may need support with some or all of their daily living activities (such as getting washed and dressed or accessing their local community).
Parent carers provide support to their children, including grown up children who could not manage without their help. The child/adult can be ill, disabled, or have mental health or substance misuse problems.
A Parent Carer Needs Assessment (PCNA) is used to understand how a parent's caring role affects their wellbeing, feelings and choices about caring. The PCNA helps us to explore: what help is needed to support you as a carer of a child or young person with additional needs or disabilities or both.
A ParentAssess Assessment is a comprehensive, practical, evidenced-based assessment of parents or carers who learning or additional needs.