The high cost of unpaid care by young people:health and economic impacts of providing unpaid care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many countries worldwide have experienced reductions in provision of formal long-term care services amidst rising need for care. Provision of unpaid care, meanwhile, has grown. This includes care provided by young people. Care responsibilities can affect a young people's health, education and employment. We aimed to investigate the impacts on the employment and health of young people aged 16 to 25 of providing care, and the associated individual and public expenditure costs.

Methods

We examined employment, earnings and health impacts for individuals, and a range of economic impacts for society, focusing on young people aged 16 to 25 providing unpaid care in England. We applied regression analysis to data from three waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (201

SUBMITTER: Brimblecombe N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7409476 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature