{"id":1768,"date":"2021-10-20T13:43:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2021-10-20T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:43:17","slug":"mydcr-the-view-from-dorset-carers-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/2021\/10\/20\/mydcr-the-view-from-dorset-carers-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"myDCR &#8211; The view from Dorset Carers Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mark Watson and his wife Sue founded the Dorset Carers Hub several years ago and they are driven by a single goal &#8211; to do their part in making the world a better place for all carers. Here he talks about the hub and how myDCR offers support for all carers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Dorset Carers hub is about giving each other support, whether you are a young carer or an old carer, carers can come together to discuss their problems. It supports other carers, offers peer to peer support, advocacy and social events.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What was interesting to me was my support network and the ability or the functionality to appoint a citizen representative and then specify the information that you want to share or not share as the case may be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It gives you the flexibility to add your friend, your family, your carer. Unpaid carers can then gave access to and be empowered to support the person they are caring for.<\/p>\n<p>I think it will make life alot easier when visiting relatives in hospital so I think adding that functionality is going to be a fantastic tool,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The case study is based on an interview for the myDCR video<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Watson and his wife Sue founded the Dorset Carers Hub several years ago and they are driven by a single goal &#8211; to do their part in making the world a better place for all carers. Here he talks about the hub and how myDCR offers support for all carers &#8220;The Dorset Carers hub [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1866,"featured_media":1769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[167,116,168],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/files\/2021\/10\/markwatsonvideo.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/1771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}