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Jan 15

Carers Training – Age Scotland

In 2024 Age Scotland was awarded funding from the National Lotteries Communities Fund. This has enabled them to develop their work supporting unpaid carers.

As well as continuing to offer their range of carers’ rights workshops for individuals, community groups and carer organisations, they will be engaging further with carers to learn where there are gaps in training in order to develop new workshops.

Current topics for our friendly, interactive workshops include:

  • An Introduction to carers’ rights
  • The Carers (Act) Scotland 2016, with a focus on Adult Carer Support Plans
  • Hospital admissions and discharge
  • Self-Directed Support
  • Power of Attorney and other advance decision making
  • Welfare benefits and income maximisation for carers
  • Residential Care Costs

How to take part

Scheduled workshops will last a maximum of 90 minutes and attendees will be sent follow-up information.

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Please get in touch with the dementia training team at [email protected] if you have any questions, would like to book a training session or would like to be added to a workshop waitlist.