Unpaid care

A significant strand of CPEC's research focuses on unpaid care. Research has been undertaken on unpaid care supply for older people, employment issues faced by carers, the costs of caring for people with dementia, coping strategies for carers, and the visibility of carers. Further work is underway on unpaid carers exploring factors influencing informal care supply, and complementarity and substitutability between unpaid care and health and social care services.   

Key findings

• Public expenditure costs of carers leaving employment in England are estimated at £2.9 billion a year

• Unpaid carers looking after someone who does not receive paid services are more likely to leave work to care

• England faces crisis in care for older people by 2032 

Current studies