Sadly I suffer from complex mental and physical disabilities. Over the years I have had significant problems in finding the right care and support that I need to live my life on a daily basis. The main form of help and support that I do get is from my teenage daughter who fully understands the difficulties I face and how to support me without judgement, apart from this I would not know where to find the help needed in my local community. However since settling down in my work with changing realities both online and in person, I feel that I do receive support without being judged or looked down on by all staff and participants that I have worked with.

I have disabilities which include different chronic health conditions and I am not getting proper treatments form the GP or hospital as intended. The GP is not listening my health histories and have only seen one symptom. They only provide treatment for that, ignoring others. The government should take initiative to create a holistic approach for disabled people with multiple health conditions to provide better care of service.

As an unpaid carer, I don't think disable people are well looked after. Firstly there is no recognition for unpaid carers or no allowances for them despite the time and effort they spend for caring their loved ones. Disabled family members have also limited say to their benefit entitlement. Benefit case workers don't always listen claimant's concern but decide based on what they understand. This needs to stop and they should value the concerns of disabled people and what they want to say.

I have experience of caring for my children and my friend so I can tell that caring responsibilities are a challenging and demanding task. Caring is generally stressful. It limits your freedom and it is financially demanding.

Caring poses physical, emotional and psychological pressure on the carer.

A lots of support is needed for someone caring for others such as emotional, financial, physical and psychological pressure.

I'm a carer for my daughter and I'm unaware of any support that I can get. I have been invited to a carer event on St Paddy's day in a hotel at the other end of Belfast that I cant attend as my daughter will be off school. I do feel unsupported and constantly sacrificing my time to be a carer that leaves me with little to no time for myself and the years continue to pass. I applied for a carer card years ago and never recieved anything. I have got free access to Belfast zoo as a carer so that helps but I do feel we should be paid a reasonable amount for the hours that we spend doing the role.

Absolutely not, there are currently no services available to support with the disabilities that I have. We are expected to use our PIP to pay for these types of things, however PIP now goes on food shopping, bills, not what it’s meant for.

Support for someone with a disability can mean to be challenging sometimes. The care has to be super compassionate and empathetic to the person and be very attentive because this is a person who likely has special needs that have to be met. Person-centered care is important in this case to improve the person’s everyday wellbeing.

I don't and it's hard to care for children and yourself and parents 1000 miles away. The system doesn't offer temporary support, just a one stop shop.

I don't feel you ever get the right support you need, but you only get something that ticks a box when you have disability or caring responsibilities and that's if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, you are banging your head against a brick wall wanting the right help and support with barriers like disability and caring responsibilities. The government do not want to invest money correctly and create the right support for them because it would mean doing the right thing.

Hi, good afternoon. Thanks for the big question of the week about caring responsibilities. I have two babies I'm caring for at the moment and I'm getting support from the social services for a change to accommodation and

food support. So cost of living is still there and it's still affecting me. There are some types of support which I need but I don't even know where to go to. I contact these children services and children's centres but they don't have most of it and I think they are rolling out lots of other things. They don't receive many contributions and like, I have needed a double buggy for over a year, nearly two years, and I haven't gotten it from them. No response. And any time I call they just say the haven't got one in the donations. So there are still a lot of things like tablets or laptops to use. Even more food is needed and all of that. I think we need a like an organised support chart, like a map that shows you where you can get any type of support when you need it or even it could put things on a centralised list that we can contact for things that we might possibly need. Thank you so much, bye.

This crisis is very challenging to manage. Since some people under declare themselves. For instance, if one got married or relocated they still stay hold their old houses instead of giving them up back to council for availability to the next person in queue

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No, the cost of living crisis is not coming to end and I still have just as many struggles if not more because no help is being given to tackle the cost of living anymore, benefits are stalling and even being halved for people on benefits who are disabled like me and costs are skyrocketing, the government doesn't care about anything they only care about lining their own pockets and covering up their scandals.