The services they offer clients include providing companionship, planning and preparing meals, light housekeeping, medication reminders, running errands, assisting seniors who live with Alzheimer's or another dementia and helping with daily living routines. They were set up in the Quadrant in the hope of attracting people to choose care as a profession.
Attracting enough carers to domiciliary care is a particular problem and can cause bed blocking in local hospitals. That is because the council has been unable to put a care package in place to help a patient cope at home and become more independent after treatment.
We were joined on the stand by Jess Gallivan, who is an apprentice in Social Services working with people with learning difficulties, and also a finalist for Miss Wales (a contest that in the modern era concentrates on achievements, contribution to the community and personality, rather than looks).
One of the organisers, Dawn George, was dressed in a bear costume (Care Bear?), which was attracting a lot of families to talk to the stand. The highlight was clearly, the dance she and I had to the music from a nearby harpist, a video of which will undoubtedly surface shortly.
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