What is Shared Lives?
Shared Lives is a bit like foster care – but for adults. As a Shared Lives carer, you would share your home and support an individual to develop new skills and abilities they already have – working towards their goals and aspirations. 
Who can be a Shared Lives carer? 
If you want to be a Shared Lives carer, you need to have either care experience – through personal experience of supporting someone who needs care or a member of your family, paid or voluntary work – transferrable skills or a hunger to learn.  An important ingredient to becoming a Shared Lives carer is having time and a spare room – essential for short breaks and people moving in!  To provide Shared Days, your home will need to have enough communal space to be able to offer the person space to have quiet time away from the carer at times. 
You can find out more about being a Shared Lives carer from Shared Lives Plus – they are the membership organisation for Shared Lives. As one of our Shared Lives carers, ategi will pay the full membership costs on your behalf! 
Find out more about Shared Lives Plus
Who do Shared Lives carers support?
Shared Lives carers support adults over 18 (or 16 in some areas) who need a little extra and support and benefit from living in a family home. People may need support for all kinds of reasons, they may have a learning or physical disability, struggle with anxiety or mental ill health, be fleeing domestic violence or modern slavery, have dementia and need a short-break away from their normal home, perhaps they need a little more help than usual after leaving the hospital. The scheme also looks to offer support for children moving from foster care into adult services.

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