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It could be you: a report on the chances of becoming a carer
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Publisher:
- Carers UK
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Carers look after family, friends or partners in help because they are ill, frail or have a disability. The care they provide is unpaid. In any year 301,000 adults in the UK become carers. Three out of five carers have had to give up work to care. Almost all of us have been or will be a carer during our lifetime.
Cash on the nail
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.10.96, 1996, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how at last, after years of campaigning, disabled people are entitled to cash payments rather than services. But some local authorities, often co-campaigners in that fight, now fear the arrangement could backfire.