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Title: Carers and social capital


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Carers and social capital
  • Paul Mansfield
  • East Midlands Joint Improvement Partnership

2
Profile of UK carers
  • One in ten, and rising
  • Two-thirds female, but changing
  • 80 with impacts on their health, e.g.,
    depression, back strain
  • Three out of four worse off financially e.g.,
    giving up work, going part-time

3
Carers in Putting People First
  • Carers need to be treated as experts and care
    partners
  • Carers are people whose skills and confidence
    should be developed
  • Not specifically mentioned as active citizens in
    other ways confined to the caring role?

4
Ways of seeing carers (Twigg)
  • The carer as resource
  • The carer as co-worker
  • The carer as co-client
  • The superseded carer

5
Carers as co-producers
  • Providers of hands-on care (personal care)
  • Providers of maintenance and supervisory care
    (shopping, medication, keeping an eye on)
  • Co-managers of care packages (liaison with
    professionals, employment issues)
  • Informal advisers to other families

6
Carers as citizens
  • Worse access to health and employment
  • Reduced access to social and leisure
    opportunities
  • Not able to take part in wider community activity
  • But have expertise to offer

7
Whats the direction?
  • Skilled-up carers?
  • A reduction in the degree of ill-health and
    poverty?
  • Using carers expertise more widely?
  • Enabling a life outside caring/separate to carer
    identity?
  • Superseded carers?

8
Some starting points
  • Include a life outside caring as well as
    helping carers to care
  • Invest in peer support and carer-led training
  • Look at ways of reducing some of the historical
    friction between user and carer movements, e.g.,
    via joint initiatives of ULOs and carer-led
    organisations
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