The UK is in the middle of a social care crisis and unpaid carers are supporting the system to an unprecedented level, says a Government report. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) says that in 2016, informal adult care was valued at 拢59.5bn per year, with around two million adults...
Ageing populations, cuts in public spending, and climate change threaten to exacerbate further gender and economic inequality, and to fuel a spiralling crisis for care and carers. While the rich and powerful elite may be able to buy their way out of facing the worst of these crises...
As this is the first study to use Rasch analysis when exploring psychometric properties of the ASCOT-Carer in unpaid carers, it is important that future studies using the ASCOT-Carer explore this further in their analysis. Table 6 Item statistics including difficulty (in logits), infit and ...
We are keen to hear from unpaid carers from all across Scotland. The survey covers all adults who care and need care but not children and young carers. The survey takes no more than 15 minutes to complete. The survey can be accessed at https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Carer_Survey/ By...