{"id":1461,"date":"2025-11-26T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editingwp.icyecolombia.com\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:34:05","slug":"carers-support-bexley-and-greenwich-volcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/editingwp.icyecolombia.com\/en\/2025\/11\/26\/carers-support-bexley-and-greenwich-volcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Carers\u2019 Support Bexley and Greenwich Volcare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This project offers family carers the chance to have a break by providing support to people in their own homes. The medical conditions that our cared for people need support with varies but the main condition is dementia\/stroke\/heart conditions but it could be any illness at all. We support people with mobility problems too. The break can last anything from 7 hours to 2 weeks (longer breaks are shared with another volunteer). Breaks will at times include overnight stays, but the vast majority of the breaks will be a day at a time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Volunteers are given an extensive induction, which requires a lot of reading, and some worksheets to be completed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Some activities Are:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Being a companion and offering conversation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>cooking meals (often microwave meals) and making drinks,&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>supporting a person with their leisure needs and interests&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A lot of the role will require sitting with someone all day and chatting or doing things together in their home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project offers family carers the chance to have a break by providing support to people in their own homes. The medical conditions that our cared for people need support with varies but the main condition is dementia\/stroke\/heart conditions but it could be any illness at all. We support people with mobility problems too. The break can last anything from 7 hours to 2 weeks (longer breaks are shared with another volunteer). Volunteers are given an extensive induction, which requires a lot of reading, and some worksheets to be completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,9,4,31,20],"tags":[],"acf":{"country":"gb","pdf":1469,"project_code":"UK1","page_project_img_1":1467,"page_project_img_2":1468,"page_project_img_3":1465,"page_project_img_4":1466},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/editingwp.icyecolombia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/aboutusimgvision.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/editingwp.icyecolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/editingwp.icyecolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/editingwp.icyecolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editingwp.icyecolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editingwp.icyecolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/editingwp.icyecolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/editingwp.icyecolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editingwp.icyecolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/editingwp.icyecolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editingwp.icyecolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editingwp.icyecolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}