Looking for some info and advice.
I am a carer to my wife who apart from physical disabilities has got severe mental health problems.
I myself have disabilities that leave me exhausted and do not allow me to do very much physical housework, we get benefits like PIP, but we also take a lot of herbal supplements, which are not cheap and at the end of the day we end up with very little surplus/spare cash, if at all after all the price increases we all will be facing this year.
My problem is i am finding it increasingly difficult getting our housework done, including the garden, and some areas are getting too dirty to be healthy. We cannot have a Carers Assessment or community care assessment, as we both got a distrust of Social Services, in particular, my wife and it would cause her mental distress. Also, they may claim we have too much money coming in and could cut back on supplements heating, etc.
But we need help with gardening and some housework, we cannot afford to pay minimum wages and therefore need funding or a volunteer to come in. Has anybody got any idea how to find a volunteer or get some funding without involving social services?
We live extremely rural in the highlands of Scotland and there are not many volunteer services say like in Wales’s age Cymru offers cleaning help.
