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Living and caring

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   Published: September 2008

Aim

   We wanted to assess the impact of providing care on older people by
   comparing the experiences of carers and non-carers aged 50 and over.

Findings

     * Carers who devoted more than 20+ hours a week to caring for family
       or friends, have a worse quality of life than non-carers.
     * 25% of those providing moderate to heavy care found it hard to get
       to hospital, compared to just 10% of non-carers.
     * 21% of those caring for a parent or parent-in-law had trouble
       getting to a GP, compared with only 2% of non-carers.
     * People providing moderate to heavy care for a spouse or a child had
       much lower levels of family wealth.
     * The average wealth of someone caring for a child or spouse was
       around £120,000. The average wealth of a non-carer was around
       £170,000.
     * People caring for a spouse were far less likely to have gone on
       holiday than a non-carer in the last 12 months. They were also less
       likely to have taken a day trip in the UK.
     * Carers were also more likely than non-carers to feel restricted in
       their leisure activities.

Methods

   Drawing on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, we used regression
   techniques to compare the experiences of carers and non-carers across
   five key policy domains.
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