Care Well — Caring for Someone Close

The Problem

"Most people never decide to become a carer. It arrives, slowly or all at once, and it is easy to go on for years without naming it, planning it or getting help. Caring itself is not the danger: heavy, unrelieved strain is. This course helps you share the load, turn the pressure down, keep the person you care for at the centre, and look after yourself along the way."

What you'll achieve

Outcomes you can expect

Name your caring role, set the deal you can sustain, and bring the family in
Speak up with doctors, clinics and services, and find the grants and help available
Turn down strain with the skills that help carers most: doable steps, pleasant moments, kinder thoughts and planned rest
Plan ahead for the end of life, handle changes in care, and find a new beginning when caring ends

The science behind it

What you'll learn

How caring unfolds over time, and why strain, not caring itself, is what to watch
The everyday coping skills from the best-tested carer programmes
Guilt, anger, grief before goodbye and compassion without burning out
Planning ahead, respite, and life after caring

What's included

Everything you get

92 tools across 15 modules, 47 of them built for this course
Examples that change with who you care for: a parent, a partner, a child, another relative or friend, or more than one person
A reader and a one-page card for every module, and private fillable workbooks for 84 of the tools
A weekly Strain Gauge, a Carer Check-In to repeat, South African helplines on every tool, and full research references

Who it's for

The right fit

Designed for For anyone helping someone who cannot fully manage on their own because of illness, disability, frailty, memory loss or mental ill health, whether you live with them or far away, are just starting or have cared for years, and for former carers after caring ends.

A practical, evidence-based companion for anyone caring for a parent, partner, child, relative or friend. It follows the whole journey of caring: recognising the role and taking it on, bringing the family in, speaking up with doctors and services, the long middle years of pressure, guilt, rest and meaning, keeping the person you care for at the centre, planning ahead, the times when care changes shape, and life when caring ends. Built on the research on what helps carers most, with South African grants, services and helplines.

Common questions

FAQ

Who is it for?

Anyone caring for someone close: an ageing parent, a partner, a child or adult child with an illness or disability, another relative, a friend or a neighbour. It also helps former carers after caring ends.

Where do I start?

With My Carer Check-In and Am I a Carer Now? in the first module. Then follow the modules in order, or choose a pathway by where you are in caring, and try one tool a week.

Is it therapy?

No. It is education and practical support for carers. If caring ever feels too heavy, every tool lists South African helplines.

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For family carers: from taking it on, through the long middle, to when caring ends.

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