Our charity of the year for 2011 is The Carers Association

The Carers Association is Ireland's national voluntary organisation for and of family carers in the home. Family carers provide high levels of care to a range of people including frail older people, people with severe disabilities, the terminally ill and children with special needs.

The Carers Association provide services such as in-home respite and are essential to family carers. They allow individuals to continue in their roles as family carers, thus implementing government policy to care for people in their own homes for as long as possible.

Today, The Carers Association has 16 Resource Centres and two Service Projects from which it delivers their range of services.

To learn more about the Carers Association visit their website www.carersireland.com

Look out for upcoming activities in our pharmacies throughout the year in support of The Carers Association.