CAREN is a freely accessible network based on an independent, searchable database of carer-related research and evidence for use by stakeholders across the world. CAREN has an international management team.

Email discussion lists for the UK Education and Research communities page has a worldwide membership and enables researchers, carers, service users, third sector organisations, practitioners and policy makers to share information on the evidence base for carer services, research and policy.

The Care and Caring Network@OU is the first of its kind in a UK HEI. Membership is open to anyone employed by The Open University (OU). Comprising four groups (each with their own chair) this network encourages knowledge exchange around care and promotes caring, carers rights and carer-related policy development within the OU.

The intention is to extend membership beyond the OU in the longer term, however at present the network is for Open University staff only.

Resources to support living with and caring for a person with dementia developed to accompany a BBC-OU co-production on dementia.

Dementia and Us is a two-part series following four people with dementia and their families over the course of two whole years. It’s a telling insight into what it’s really like to live with the condition over a period of time, as we follow the families through the ups and downs of life with a changing brain. This is the story of dementia, told by people living with dementia.

The Ageing Well Public Talk Series is an educational intervention that addresses and involves ageing populations from diverse communities as well as practitioners, clinicians and other professionals who support ageing populations in their professional roles. These series aim to engage the public in discussions around their physical and mental health and wellbeing and has several sessions that are useful to carers.