ArticleHealth & social care in the community2022
Inequalities in unpaid carer's health, employment status and social isolation.
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- The relationship between work and health in unpaid carers: part II of a scoping review and new model.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Unpaid dementia carers: a scoping review of the caregiving trajectory and changing short break needs.Frontiers in health services · 2025Pooled it
- Health behaviour changes around transitions into and out of unpaid caregiving in the UK: A longitudinal study.SSM - population health · 2026Article
- Association between becoming a carer in later life and changes in the trajectory of cognitive function: results from the English longitudinal study of ageing.Age and ageing · 2026Article
- Priority setting in dementia palliative care research for people living with dementia and carers: A mixed methods consensus study.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- Rapid review: Ten ways to improve support for minoritised informal adult carers at local government policy level to redress inequality.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2024Review
- Childhood Adversities and Caregiving for Older Parents: Building Capacity for a Caring Society.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- Informal Caregiving in Adolescents from 10 to 16 Years Old: A Longitudinal Study Using Data from the Tokyo Teen Cohort.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Inequalities in unpaid carer's health, employment status and social isolation.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
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Abstract
Providing higher-intensity unpaid care (higher care hours or care within the household) is associated with negative impacts on people's paid employment, mental health and well-being. The evidence of effects on physical health is mixed and carer's social and financial outcomes have been under-researched. The biggest evidence gap, however, is on how outcomes vary by factors other than type or level of care provision, in particular socio-demographic factors. Our study used two waves of data (2017/19 and 2018/2020) from the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study for people aged 16 and older. We investigated the effects of providing care for 10 or more hours a week or within the household in interaction with people's socio-demographic characteristics. Outcomes included mental and physical health, social isolation, employment status and earnings. We found that caring responsibilities interacted with gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status (as measured by highest educational qualification), or age to affect carers differentially in a number of areas of their lives leading to, and exacerbating, key disadvantages and inequalities.
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