ArticlePloS one2024
Understanding the unmet support needs of young and young adult carers and their families.
Article in PloS one, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Accounting for the Unaccounted in AI and Care: Bringing Young Carers into the AI Realm.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Caring in Context: Development of a Family-Centred and Cross-Sectoral Framework to Support Young Carers.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Caring Across Generations: The Urgent Need to Support Young Carers in Canada's Aging Population.Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ · 2026Article
- Supporting young carers in Canada.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2025Article
- Moments of Care: Perceptions of Young Carers and Day-to-Day Well-Being.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Need for Health Systems to Engage With and Support Youth who are Caregivers-A Lived Experience Perspective From Young Carers.Journal of patient experience · 2025Article
- Young carers' experiences of services and support: What is helpful and how can support be improved?PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Support for children and young people who provide unpaid care is important to help prevent negative impacts of caregiving on their education, employment, mental health, and social relationships. We aimed to address an evidence gap about what services and support are needed from young carers' perspectives. We carried out focus groups or in-depth interviews with 133 carers aged 9-25 in England. Expressed unmet need for services and support could be grouped in three categories: support that would reduce or remove young people's need to provide care, help improve the lives of the people they care for, mitigate against impacts of providing care on their mental health, wellbeing, education, social participation and leisure activities, and, whilst they are still providing care, assist them in their caring role. Action is needed to address these currently unmet needs and implement young carers' and their families' rights to support.
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