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Carers Week 2024

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Carers Week is a yearly awareness campaign that that aims to highlight the challenges faced by unpaid carers, and recognise their outstanding contribution to families, friends and communities up and down the UK.This Carers Week, we'll make sure carers have access to useful information about how telecare services can help support their caring responsibilities to ensure those in their care have support on hand 24-7.

Support for your loved one if you're going on holiday

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If you're planning a holiday this summer, and usually have caring responsibilities for a family member at home, you may be concerned about the support they might need to ensure they are safe and well whist you're away. It's understandable to be worried about an older person at home while you're on holiday. Here are some things you can do to ease your worries:Prepare - before you go on holiday, make sure your loved one has everything they need. Could someone pop in to check on them - a friend, neighbour, or family member perhaps.

National Epilepsy Awareness Week 2024

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It's National Epilepsy Awareness Week so we want to make sure that we're doing all we can to share information about how our telecare service is making a difference to many young people and adults living with Epilepsy.Did you know that we can provide equipment to monitor and support young people and adults living with epilepsy? This can be at home or outside anytime time during the day and night.

Home Upgrade Grant Phase 2

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What is it?The Home Upgrade Grant (HUG) is a government scheme that provides energy efficiency upgrades and low carbon heating for homes via local authority funding. The aim of the scheme is to reduce fuel poverty and help the UK reach its Net Zero by 2050 target. The scheme will run until March 2025. It covers both owner occupied and private rented sector homes that are off the gas grid with the aim to improve as many fuel-poor homes to EPC rating Band C by 2030. Benefits:Residents can benefit from increased energy efficiency in homes, a reduction in energy bills and more comfortable homes as a result of being better-adapted to climate change through better heat retention in winter and keeping cool in the hotter weather. Ventilation and condensation are looked at in line with the other measures due to knock-on effects these can have on a property. Finally, a greater reduction in carbon footprint will be seen from better heating systems.Who is eligible and how can they sign up?The Home Upgrade Grant Phase 2 (HUG2) is open to home-owners and private tenants in:homes not heated by mains gas which includes oil, coal, LPG or only electric heatinghouseholds with a combined annual income of less than £36,000 OR receiving certain income-related means-tested benefits such as Universal Credithard to heat homes – this is based on your home Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). You will be helped with this part of the assessment and receive a free EPC assessment if you do not have one already.Landlords who have four or fewer properties will be able to apply and will be required to contribute at least one third of the cost of the upgrades in addition to the funding provided. This will be agreed before work begins.HUG2 funding is now open to private tenants, landlords and home-owners and will be available until March 2025.Residents can find out more information on the scheme and the application process on our webpage: Home Upgrade Grant Phase 2 | North Herts Council (north-herts.gov.uk)Residents can also sign up by calling the Energy Saving Trust on 0808 1968255 or online at https://hugapply.co.uk/ .

Dementia Action Week 2024 - how technology can provide support

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To mark this important week, we're highlighting our partnership with other with other local organisations, including Age UK Hertfordshire, Carers in Herts, Mind, HILS, HertsHelp and North Herts Minority Ethnic Forum which form Hertswise.Hertswise is a service designed for people living with dementia, low level memory loss, disorientation or mild cognitive impairment.Each of the partners involved with Hertswise have a specialism. Ours is to provide the assistive technology that can support a person living with dementia to stay independent and safe.

Home and Away service - a pendant alarm that works at home and outdoors – ready for summer.

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Whether you're at home, walking to the shops, at the park or visiting a friend, the GO pendant is with you every step of the way. GO enables you to have more independence and live life more confidently knowing that help is still with you at the press of a button when you're outside.With the summer weather just around the corner, now is the time to think about how a GO pendant can support the safety and independence of you or a family member whilst enjoying the good weather outside.
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