The costs of informal care : looking inside the household
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The costs of informal care : looking inside the household
HMSO, 1992
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Bibliography: p. 113-116
Includes index
At head of title: Social Policy Research Unit
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Description
Is community care really cost-effective? This monograph breaks new ground by stepping inside the households of informal carers. Drawing on an in-depth study of people looking after very frail elderly and disabled relatives, it describes the impact on carers' employment and earnings, evaluates the effectiveness of social security provision for carers, and examines how far the incomes of disabled people and carers actually cover the extra costs of disablement and care-giving. It concludes that, with the growing emphasis on informal carers in delivering "care in the community", employment policies, services and social security provision all need to address more closely the financial costs currently borne by individual carers, at the risk of their own long-term impoverishment.
Table of Contents
- Informal care - a growing concern
- the carers
- becoming a carer - anticipating the financial consequences
- incomes and other resources of the disabled people
- carers' incomes I - the impact of giving care on employment and earnings
- carers' incomes II - the impact of social security
- household incomes and other resources
- the extra costs of disability and care-giving
- patterns of responsibility and control over household financial management
- the overall financial impact of caring
- developing financial support for informal carers - policies for the future.
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