Care provision within families and its socio-economic impact on care providers

SPRU research team

• Hilary Arksey
• Caroline Glendinning
• Nicola Moran

External collaborators

• Marjolien Morre, Vilans Expertise Centre on Long-Term Care, Utrecht
• Henk Nies, Vilans Expertise Centre on Long-Term Care, Utrecht
• Frits Tjadens, Vilans Expertise Centre on Long-Term Care, Utrecht

Project summary

Aims

Drawing on evidence from 6-8 member countries, this project:

• identified research evidence on the prevalence of and socio-economic consequences for, carers of older people and of other groups of disabled people
• identified examples of good practice measures aimed at mitigating the adverse socio-economic impact of care-giving
• identified gaps in available evidence, problems in synthesising data from different countries and opportunities for improving the range, quality and consistency of data collected across EU member states.

The project team worked closely with expert informants drawn from the Eurocarers network of research and carers’ organisations, to identify relevant research data and examples of good practice measures.

The policy briefing paper and summary were chosen by Europa, the European Alliance for Families as a useful resource under their ‘Reconciliation of work and family life’ stream.