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Living and caring for all
- Author:
- LLOYD James
- Publisher:
- International Longevity Centre UK
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 26p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Drawing on and responding to Living and Caring? An Investigation of the Experience of Older Carers (a study exploring the effect of care provision on the lives of people aged 50 years and older), this report aims to explore key strategic public policy issues concerning unpaid care provision by older people. It discusses factors shaping the provision and patterns of unpaid care by the older population, reviews the outcomes that older carers experience, and summarises research evidence about the quality of life of older carers. It considers the future of carers policy, commenting that demand for social care will increase in line with population ageing and increasing longevity, and recommends increasing the supply and availability of formal care, and dispersing the burden of unpaid care by increasing the number of unpaid carers through approaches such as improved support for carers.
Toward a new co-production of care
- Author:
- LLOYD James
- Publisher:
- Strategic Society Centre
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Commission on the Funding of Care and Support has been instructed by the Government to make recommendations by July 2011 on how to fund older people's long-term care. Any new settlement on long-term care funding will inevitably also affect the balance of formal and informal care across the population. This discussion paper explores these dilemmas with reference to current informal care policy, the long-term care funding system and the effective offer to carers that results, particularly around the unpredictability and variability of support to carers. It examines how, building on the current system, a new offer for carers could be developed that is communicable, guaranteed and personalised. Given the continued difficulty in engaging the public in thinking about the potential risk of needing care, the report argues that attaching an improved offer for carers to a new settlement on care funding, effectively inviting households to insure against the burdens that can be associated with high levels of informal care provision, may be the best way of unlocking general support for reform.