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Improving quality of life for carers

There are 5.7 million carers across the UK, providing care and support to family members, relatives or friends who are ill, disabled or elderly and frail (Office of Populations, Censuses and Surveys, 1995). It is estimated that informal carers save the country £34 billion annually (Nuttall et al, 1993). If carers decided to stop providing informal care, health and social services would be overwhelmed by the increase in workload, many people would suffer and taxes would increase dramatically.

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Additional Titles
British Journal of Community Nursing

Key Information

Type of Reference
Mgzn
Publisher
Mark allen publishing ltd.
ISBN/ISSN
1462-4753, 1462-4753
Resource Database
British nursing index bni - exported on 8/7/2016
Publication Year
2000
Volume Number
5
Start Page
368
Language
English