Mantel Care
You are a Mantelzorger when you provide intensive Health and or unpaid help to a partner, family member, friend, acquaintance or neighbor for a period longer than 3 months. A family caregiver is not a professional caregiver but provides help or Health from a personal bond with the one you care for. The help you give as a family caregiver may consist of caregiving, but it may also be help with necessary daily activities such as household chores. This help allows the other person to get by, continue to live at home and participate in society.
Young Informal Caregivers of Opsterland
Are you still able to concentrate in school when your sister is in the hospital? Or do you sometimes say "no" to your friends because your mother can't be home alone? Are you between the ages of 10 and 25 and do you Health for, or worry about, someone at home, a neighbor, friend or family member? Then you are a young family caregiver.
1 in 4 young people in the Netherlands is a young caregiver
For you it may be very ordinary, but what you do is actually very special. And you're not the only one: 1 in 4 young people in the Netherlands is a young caregiver.
Sign up for the Young Mantel Caregivers of Opsterland
We regularly organize fun activities for young people like you. You get to know other young caregivers from Opsterland, with whom you can share experiences or just do something fun. Would you like to participate? Go to the page
Informal care support
As a family caregiver, you spend a lot of time caring for your partner, child, parent or another loved one with mental health problems, a chronic illness, age-related issues such as dementia or physical limitations in your environment. This sometimes leaves little time for yourself. How often in the past month have you had time to play sports, have a cup of coffee with a friend or play pool at the café?
It is important to take good care of yourself as well. Relaxing now and then makes it easier to cope with caregiving and helps to prevent overburdening.
Good to know!
If you care intensively for a loved one, you often think this is quite normal. Yet what you do is very special. You should know that you do not have to be alone.
- You can get help through various professional organizations. Increasingly, health insurance companies also reimburse informal care support and/or respite care through supplementary insurance.
- You may also be eligible for support from the Wmo. Area Team consultants can advise and help you find appropriate support.
- A number of villages in our municipality have village support centers. You can go here with all kinds of questions, but also if you need someone to help you temporarily with mowing the grass, for example.
- On the website voorelkaarplein.nl you can find more information about facilities, peer contact, village rooms and activities.
Housing and informal care
When there is intensive informal care, it is sometimes possible for the informal caregiver and the care recipient to live at the same address. It is possible for an informal caregiver to move in with your loved one or your loved one comes to live with you.
Make yourself known as a caregiver!
Perhaps you yourself have doubts about whether you are a caregiver. Because you care for someone you know well, you often think it is quite normal. Are you an informal caregiver and not yet registered with the municipality? Then sign up! Fill in the form 'Registering informal care' (at the top of this page under the heading 'Directly arrange'). After your registration a Wmo-consultant will contact you.
When it is determined that informal care is indeed being provided, you will be officially registered. If you are in need of support, an appointment will be made to discuss your situation with you.
Informal care newsletter
You will receive a gift after registering and will be eligible for the informal care compliment from now on. You will also be invited to the activity on the annual informal care afternoon and can register to receive the informal care newsletter.
If you can't figure it out, you can always call 0512 386222 or email the Area Team of Municipality Opsterland at gebiedsteam@opsterland.nl.
