Caring for carers

Economic Evaluation of Young Carers’ Interventions Crossroads Caring for Carers and the Princess Royal Trust for Carers

Hidden caring, hidden carers? Exploring the experience of carers for people with long-term conditions.

Informal carers make a significant contribution to illness management in communities, but many struggle to access support and remain 'hidden carers'. We aimed to explore how carers of people with common long-term conditions (LTCs, such as coronary heart disease or kidney disease) conceptualised their caring, and whether they struggled to identify themselves with the term 'carer' or access for s...

Group support during caring and post-caring: The role of carers groups

This article discusses the fi ndings about the role of face-to-face carers groups which emerged from a qualitative, interpretive study of 37 former carers’ experiences. The study was informed by grounded theory and semi-structured in-depth interviews were used as the main method of data collection. The advantages and disadvantages of carers groups during caring and post-caring that were identif...

Family carers’ experience of caring for an older parent with severe and persistent mental illness

While the burden of caring for older people with chronic medical illness and dementia has been well documented, considerably less is known about how carers develop the strength and resilience to sustain this important role with older family members with mental illness. The aim of the study was to understand the lived experience of primary caregivers of older people with severe and persistent me...

Caring for children with physical disability in Kenya: potential links between caregiving and carers' physical health

BACKGROUND The health of a carer is a key factor which can affect the well-being of the child with disabilities for whom they care. In low-income countries, many carers of children with disabilities contend with poverty, limited public services and lack assistive devices. In these situations caregiving may require more physical work than in high-income countries and so carry greater risk of phy...