Help improve the peer support available to young people who care for a family member living with dementia
The programme aims to support young dementia carers by providing a structure that allows them to meet and talk to others who understand, in a safe space. It was co-designed together with a group of young people aged 8-16 and their parents, young adult carers, and professionals.
The team is now recruiting participants that will help test the programme!
What do they want to achieve?
They want to find out what young dementia carers and their parents/guardians think about this new peer support programme. They want to explore whether they found it useful or not and why.
Who can take part?
Young people living anywhere in the UK between the ages of 8 and 16 who help care for a family member living with dementia, and their parents/guardians. That is, young people who live together with a parent/grandparent who has dementia (they don’t have to be the primary carer). They are also inviting their parents/guardians.
What would young people be doing if they decide to take part?
They would ask them to take part in the programme and to share with them their experience and opinions about it.
Young people will receive a £40 shopping voucher as a thank you for supporting the study and completing the data collection activities (please don’t share this information on social media because it attracts fraudulent participation requests).
This short video gives more details about the research and the peer support programme: https://youtu.be/W2FcLTVExr0 (and explains the programme nicely)
Would you like to know more about the study and the programme?
Please contact research team member Jen Roberts:
Email address is j.roberts@bangor.ac.uk
Phone number is 01248 388346.
