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Dahlberg, L.

Effectiveness of interventions to address the negative health outcomes of informal caregiving to older adults: Protocol for an umbrella review

Background: Informal (unpaid) caregivers play an essential role in caring for older people, whose care needs are often not fully met by formal services. While providing informal care may be a positive experience, it can also exert a considerable strain on caregivers' physical and mental health. How to best support the needs of informal caregivers remains largely debated.

Sat, 08/27/2022 - 12:37

Age and gender of informal carers: a population-based study in the UK

This paper identifies variations in the age and gender characteristics of informal carers in the UK. The paper is based on the Individual Sample of Anonymous Records, a 3% random sample of the 2001 UK Census. The sample size was 1 825 595. Of this sample, 10% were reported to be carers. The analysis shows that informal caregiving is systematically linked with both age and gender. Caregiving increased with age until reaching a peak in the 45-59 age group, in which almost 20% were carers.

Thu, 07/20/2017 - 15:13