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Online Tools Reduce Isolation For Carers - ConnectingSuperintendency. ConnectingSuperintendencyTechnology translating for social superintendency providers Menu Accessibility Text-only Default layout Site map Managing ICT ICT Skills Using ICT Online Presence Resources Blog & NewsWell-nighAbout ConnectingSuperintendencyTeam Accessibility Contact Board Noticeboard Recently published News Newsletter Publications & Reports Events Training Volunteering Job vacancies Other notices Managing ICT ICT Skills Using ICT Online Presence Resources Blog & NewsWell-nighNoticeboard 10 June 2015 / Using ICT, Online Presence Online Tools Reduce Isolation For Carers Caring for a family member or for a friend can be very isolating at times. Although never a replacement for squatter to squatter contact, there are several ways to alimony in touch online.ScuttlebuttShare Chill4Us Carers Exploring Tablets for Caring (Photo: Paul Webster) Carers Week is a great annual opportunity to raise sensation of caring, highlight the challenges carers squatter and to recognise the contribution carers make to families and communities. Hopefully some of the on-line resources we've highlighted in this article will assist as part of the overall support carers can provide and will ensure constructive caring takes place throughout the whole year.Our visits to organisations as part of the ConnectingSuperintendencyproject has put us in touch with a number of groups and organisations who play an vital role either in a network or in the direct support of unpaid family carers. The picture here is of a session we ran with  Chill4Us Carers in Norwich older in 2015 to help members in their network of informal carers discover how touchscreen technology could help them stay unfluctuating to friends and family.    This vendible is a round-up of the websites and apps that we have mentioned when working with these groups and which might help you if you are caring for someone tropical to you. Moreoversee our  page on 'Online Networks That Bring People Together' which has links to remoter resources and websites that may be useful too. The links listed here are to the generic carers support networks, there are many other support communities and apps that exist for specific medical conditions. Some of these apps can be found on the My Health Apps website and the NHS Choices App Store. UPDATED - June 2015 - to include increasingly useful tools and the Tinder Foundation Specialist Carers Network.   Information well-nigh support for carers in a digital ageCarer+ The EU funded  Carer+ project aims to: Equip EU superintendency workers with the required set of digital competences to support older people (+65) in their use of ICTs and AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) technologies that will enhance their professional status and impact positively on the quality of life, autonomy and safety of those in their care; Equip superintendency workers with a set of digital competences that will indulge them to be increasingly zippy in society, enhancing and diversifying their opportunities for EU mobility, employability (access to largest jobs) and personal and professional development. The website contains specific sections of resources well-nigh digital support for Carers, for Providers of Learning for Carers, for Researchers in DigitalSuperintendencyand for Policy Makers in Digital Inclusion and Care, There are many links to carer toolkits and preliminaries research, but moreover a particularly useful list of lists showing websites and apps for carers. Specialist Carers' Network - Tinder Foundation Research by the Tinder Foundation has found that nearly 9 in 10 carers find it difficult to leave their home considering of their caring role, but 42% of carers who are online say that the internet helps to reduce their feelings of isolation. This network run by Tinder Foundation offers specialist help and support that carers need to take wholesomeness of the benefits the online world can offer. There is a wide selection of resources  misogynist on the UK Online Centres website with a full report into digital support for carers due out in Summer 2015.  Web-based Networks and Forums Babble - Carers Trust Babble has been created by  Carers Trust as an online space where those weather-beaten under 18 who are caring for a family member or friend can chat, share their experiences and wangle information and advice. The site aims to bring together young carers from wideness the UK in an online space which is safe, fun and supportive. The Carers Trust website has other online places to share your concerns. Matter is the network for carers weather-beaten 16 to 25 and carers Space for those weather-beaten over 25. There is moreover a general forum and a LiveYackroom. Chill4Us Carers This  website and discussion forum was established in 2005 as a social network and community for unpaid family carers and ex-carers. It is about, information, humour, fantasy and fun, yack with carers and finding help when the caring ends. It is a peer support group offering carer resources and members have wits of the isolation felt by family carers, the struggle with finding grants, money and the unstipulated difficulty of finding help for carers. There is information and translating for carers in the message boards, the website, twitter feeds and a free daily online newspaper. In wing to the forum  Chill4Us Carers moreover runs the very successful Computers4Carers service which has distributed over 400 refurbished computers, laptops and now new tablets to unpaid carers across Norfolk. Carers can often be very isolated at home, so a computer enabling reconnection to friends and family is very welcome and valued by the carers who have received them.  Discover Skills For Carers Whether you’re looking to learn increasingly well-nigh carers and their needs, or explore how technologies can be used to unhook services increasingly effectively, Discover Skills For Carers can help tailor an tideway to suit your individual requirements. Registration is self-ruling and gives you wangle to a growing resource wall of skills and digital inclusion related e-learning materials, specimen studies and on-line carers support community. Discover is helping informal carers to use computers and the internet to embed digital technology in their day-to-day lives.LD Carers Direct The Learning Disability Carers Group works with nonflexible to reach Learning Disability carers wideness the UK. Through their online LDPolityon Facebook and Twitter they help LD carers who lack the confidence, time, finances or transport, to be heard and supported without having to shepherd meetings. They provide specific information and translating service and help LD Carers with new ways of participating in the improvement, diamond and wordage of services. The services aim to moreover empower LD carers through training, self development, polity leadership and digital inclusion opportunities.Phone or Tablet based AppsJointly CarersUK, the national membership soft-heartedness for carers in the UK, have ripened the Jointly app as a tool to make caring for someone a little easier. This iOS and Android app financing £2.99 to set up a 'circle of care' where you can organise the liaison and coordination between those who share the care. The app includes facilities to record medications, appointments, tasks and contacts all designed to reduce the stress often felt when arranging superintendency by family members and friends.. The CarersUK website moreover has an online discussion forum where registered users can yack well-nigh topics of interest or share their concerns.Action for Young Carers Action for Young Carers are a Nottingham based soft-heartedness providing support for carers weather-beaten between 5 and 18 years old. In 2014 they launched their free app which provides much needed information and support services both for unidentified young carers as well as those once accessing the AYC services. The app can be used to submit self assessments and to receive news well-nigh meet-ups. It is misogynist for iOS devices here and for Android devices here. Carers Federation The Carers Federation is the parent soft-heartedness of AYC providing support for carers of all month and the people they squint without wideness the UK. They moreover have an app which is on the iOS app store here and on Google Play for Android devices here. The app can be used to search for Support Groups, by postcode and keyword. It lists information containing details of local support groups, meeting times, a map to the venue and useful contacts.   If you know of any apps or websites that can be used by carers that we've missed please tell us in the comments below. Comments Log in to scuttlebutt Related articles… Dementia: Technology resources Top Technology Tips for Health & SocialSuperintendencyProviders Touchscreen technology devices Technology & social superintendency e-bulletin ConnectingSuperintendencyissues a monthly e-bulletin rounding up the latest technology and social superintendency stories for providers of sultana and social care. 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