Shared Lives
Telephone:
0191 278 8100
Address:
Ground Floor, Westgate Community College
Westgate Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 9LU
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Shared LivesĀ is a service aimed at adults with a learning disability who need overnight support and supervision. Shared Lives helps people to develop or maintain independent living skills, friendships and roots in their community.
The support allows people to live life to the full in their communities, without having to live alone or in a care home. Adults who need support are matched with a compatible Shared Lives carer who agrees to share their home and family (or community) life with that person. They will either move into their own room in the household or use the home as a base.
This can be longer term, with arrangements lasting for years, or short term, providing holidays or short breaks for family carers.