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Dorset is facing a ‘crisis’ in elderly care as experts warned increasing wages will have a ‘catastrophic’ effect on the sector.

Access the paper by clicking here CRISIS IN CARE: 60 beds a day ‘blocked’ and £1.1bn care shortfall

There are over 21,000 carers in Swindon and each year Carers’ Week is an important time to raise awareness of caring, highlighting the challenges that carers face every day and recognising the contribution they make to families, as well as the local community here in Swindon.

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A new website dedicated to carers, has been launched by the HSE to coincide with National Carers Week from June 13 to 19.

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This study investigated how both caregiver and patient factors predict different aspects of burden in colorectal cancer caregivers.

Understanding burden in caregivers of colorectal cancer survivors: what role do patient and caregiver factors play? (Follow this link if you have an Athens password). Alternatively contact the UHSM Academy Library for a copy of the article or call 0161 291 5778)

English policy and practice guidance recommends local authorities offer personal budgets to all adults eligible for social care support using transparent and equitable allocation systems which maximise choice and control for users. This includes family and other unpaid carers as carers in England are entitled to their own personal budget. The Care Act 2014 strengthens carers’ rights and places duties on authorities to assess and meet carers eligible support needs. However, little is known about how authorities assess and allocate resources to carers. This article explores this information gap drawing on data from a survey of English local authorities in two regions completed by carers lead officers and complemented by follow-up telephone interviews with a sub-sample of these officers.

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Carers Week activities the length and breadth of Scotland are raising awareness of the work of unpaid carers and bringing to life the real issues they face.

Access the paper by clicking here Treating Scotland’s carers fairly is the hallmark of a just society

For Carers Week, legal trainer Belinda Schwehr answers some of practitioners’ key questions about carers’ rights under the Care Act 2014.

Access the paper by clicking here Your questions answered about assessing carers under the Care Act

Carers Week seems like a good opportunity to consider the growing number of employees who have responsibility for caring for an elderly relative. As the population ages and people are living longer, but not necessarily in good health, those who are working in their 40s, 50s and 60s are increasingly finding that they are assuming care responsibility for an elderly relative, usually a parent. A 2015 report by Eurofound on work and caring across the EU points out that 8 per cent of men and 9 per cent of women aged 18-64 and in employment, care for an elderly or disabled relative at least once or twice a week. Among workers aged 50-64, the proportion rises to 18 per cent of men and 22 per cent of women. This can place individuals under considerable strain, as they struggle to balance their job with the care needs of their relatives and, in some cases, the care of young children too (the so-called sandwich generation).

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The clinical and social epidemiology of living with a life-threatening or life-limiting illness, frail ageing, long-term caregiving, and grief and bereavement is well documented in the palliative care, psycho-oncology and psychiatric literature but this investigation asks what interest exists from the mainstream public health sector in these health and illness experiences. This paper reports a content analysis of 7 key British public health journals, 14 major public health textbooks and 3 public health websites employing key word and synonym searches to assess the size and quality of interest in populations related to ageing, dying, caregiving, and grief and bereavement. Compared with other public health issues, such as obesity and tobacco use, for examples, interest in the social experience and epidemiology of end-of-life experiences is extremely low. Reasons for this lack of interest are explored.

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