Are You a Carer?
If you are please let us know – we may be able to help you.
Bolton Carers Support
Bolton Carers Support Helpline is open 24/7
Whatever your query we’ll do our best to help or just lend a listening ear 01204 363056.
Call us from 9 am to 5 pm on weekdays if you have any sort of query; you may have questions about aids and equipment, benefits, help at home, health services, or support available. Whatever your query, we can signpost you to relevant services.
At all other times (evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays) call if you have an urgent issue or emergency. Perhaps the person you look after has had a fall at home, become unwell or agitated, or a situation has arisen that can’t wait until the next working day.
Contact Carers Direct
Telephone: 0808 802 0202
Email: CarersDirect@nhschoices.nhs.uk
Office Hours: Lines are open 8am to 9pm Monday to Friday, 11am to 4pm at weekends. Calls are free from UK landlines.
Non-urgent advice: Information & Support
A guide to care and support: Information for carers and people who have care & support needs.
Caring for someone: Advice on providing care, medicines etc.
Care after hospital: Providing care for people who have been recently discharged from hospital.
Taking a break: Caring for someone can be a full-time job – find out about accessing breaks and respite care.
Support and benefits for carers: Caring for someone can be a full-time job – find out about accessing breaks and respite care.
Work and Disability: Guidance, support and help with employment issues.
Being a young carer: Advice for carers 18 or under and their entitlement to support
Benefits for the under-65s: Advice and information on helping the person you look after get the benefits that they are entitled to.
Benefits for the over-65s: Advice and information on financial support for older people with a disability or illness.
Carer’s Assessment: How your benefits maybe affected after the death of the person you look after and what happens to their benefits
Other benefits: Advice for carers and the people they are looking after on claiming a whole host of other benefits unrelated to their disability or caring