Support for carers

Caring for someone with MS can take its toll both physically and emotionally. Help is out there.

There are currently over three million working carers in the UK. Work is important for well-being, income and to keep social contacts.

If you're under 18 and have a family member with MS, you may be giving them extra help and support.

This page covers some of the financial help and support available to carers around the UK.

If you spend a lot of your time caring for someone else, it can be all too easy to neglect yourself.

Everyone with MS has the right to make choices about the care they receive now, as well as in the future.

Chris has been working at the same company for over 20 years. We spoke to him about honesty, supportive employers and MS in the workplace.

Kristen is a PhD researcher at Swansea University. She is studying the mechanisms underpinning the possible effect of Simvastatin on MS progression.

In relapsing remitting MS, people have distinct attacks of symptoms which then fade away either partially or completely. Around 85% of people with MS are diagnosed with this type.