With extensive experience of the UK's National Health Service, caring for elderly relatives, and - most recently - working for a major dementia charity, Mary Jordan has revised and updated her Essential Carer's Guide to provide the key information you need to hand when faced with caring for a relative or friend. With individual case stories, practical advice, entitlements & benefits and how to appy for them, as well as social needs and caring for the carer, this Guide helps to combine practical and emotional help and converys a sense of empowerment and of not being alone.