It is essential that we support the mental health of carers to prevent a cycle of care need and a public health and social care crisis.
What’s next?
The Eurocare team are now investigating whether there are additional inequalities in the change in mental health upon becoming a carer for different ethnic minority groups and different levels of philippines rcs data financial means. previous work that people from Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnicities are more likely to be carers but we don’t yet know whether their health is more affected by becoming a carer. Similarly, we might expect families with lower incomes to have to pick up more unpaid care instead of paying for private care. But again, we don’t if becoming a carer impacts more on their health compared to people who have higher incomes.
We are also now working on a study which focuses squarely on young carers – the group missing in the study discussed in this blog. Again using UKHLS we are looking at how the health and wellbeing of young carers aged 10-24 changes when they become a carer.