Dependant Alarm, Digital Drawing Reader by Chloe Heffernan

Pendant alarms are a charged service intended for a housebound disabled person to use in a time of Pendant alarms are a charged service intended for a housebound disabled person to use in a time of need, but are often need, but are often too expensive forfrom the person too expensive for the person needing care, and their household, to afford.This isolation society causes a sense of abandonment, leaving them feling expected to continue trapped with little-to-no needing care, and their household, support or intervention. to afford.This isolation from society causes a sense of abandonment, leaving them feling expected to continue trapped with little-to-no support or intervention.

Carers are paid the lowest benefit allowance of its kind, and often the role involves physically changing, cleaning, and medicating their loved one. This all goes overlooked by society and the systems which are supposed to support the most vulnerable.

While pendant alarms have a whole team behind them, a dependant alarm is all to often a child, with their parent’s safety and welfare in their hands.

It was estimated in a 2010 study that a quarter of a million children provide home disability care to a parent or family member in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England. As of 2020, Carers UK estimated 1.3 million people in an unpaid care role during the pandemic.

Shamefully, it is boasted how much money unpaid care work saves the UK economy - 132 billion pounds a year.

But at what cost?

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