Caring for Me and You (Course for Unpaid Carers)

EPP Cymru provide a range of self-management courses for people living with a long-term health condition/s and unpaid carers.

Our self-management courses support you to have the confidence, information and skills needed to help you manage a condition in partnership with your health and social care professionals.

Caring for Me and You (Course for Unpaid Carers)

This is a 6-week course consisting of one 2.5-hour session each week. It helps adults who care for someone with a long-term health condition to maintain and iprove their quality of life through self-management.

Topics include: staying healthy, improving fatigue, improving sleep, accessing support, challenging behaviours, dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, future planning and legal issues, relaxation, developing and maintaining your own self-management care plan, problem solving and decision making.

How are the courses run?

Sessions take place weekly over a number of weeks, delivered by trained facilitators who live with a long-term health condition/s themselves or care for someone who does.

These courses are available both in person and online and provided in suitable venues in local communities.  

The courses offer people a chance to share experiences, concerns and problems in a safe and welcoming space.

Book onto a course or make an enquiry

E-Mail:  eppcymru@wales.nhs.uk

Source: Vale of Glamorgan Council