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Carers Association Publishes New Report
Dublin, November 20th - 2010: In November 2009, the Carer’s Association of Ireland published a geographical review of its operations, compiled by Gamma. The report, conducted on data supplied by the Carer’s Association, is hoped to have a wide reaching impact on the way that the Association is run.
Carers in Ireland: A Statistical and Geographical Overview, is a 90 page report which examines the demographical and statistical trends of carers in Ireland. Among the other areas that the report investigated were working conditions and trends for carers, financial considerations by location for carers and Eurocarers, the EU perspective.
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About The Carers Association
The Carers Association is Ireland's national voluntary organisation for and of family carers in the home. Family carers provide high levels of care to a range of people including frail older people, people with severe disabilities, the terminally ill and children with special needs.
The Association was established in 1987 to lobby and advocate on behalf of carers. While the government has begun to initiate some services for carers, we believe that the vast majority of Ireland's family carers still remain without vital services. These services, such as in-home respite, are essential to family carers. They allows us to continue in our roles as family carers, thus implementing government policy to care for people in their own homes for as long as possible.
Today, The Carers Association has 16 Resource Centres and two Service Projects from which it delivers our range of services.