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Barriers to receipt of social care services for working carers and the people they care for in times of austerity

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  • Brimblecombe, Nicola
  • Pickard, Linda
  • King, Derek
  • Knapp, Martin

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Reconciliation of unpaid care and employment is an increasingly important societal, economic and policy issue, both in the UK and internationally. Previous research shows the effectiveness of formal social care services in enabling carers to remain in employment. Using quantitative and qualitative data collected from carers and the person they care for in 2013 and 2015, during a period of cuts to adult social care in England, we explore barriers experienced to receipt of social care services. The main barriers to receipt of services identified in our study were availability, characteristics of services such as quality, and attitudes of carer and care-recipient to receiving services. These barriers have particular implications for carers' ability to reconcile care and employment.

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  • Brimblecombe, Nicola & Pickard, Linda & King, Derek & Knapp, Martin, 2017. "Barriers to receipt of social care services for working carers and the people they care for in times of austerity," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 70802, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    1. Pickard, Linda & Brimblecombe, Nicola & King, Derek & Knapp, Martin, 2017. "‘Replacement Care’ for working carers? A longitudinal study in England, 2013–15," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 84071, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Donnelly, Nora-Ann & Humphries, Niamh & Hickey, Anne & Doyle, Frank, 2017. "“We don’t have the infrastructure to support them at home”: How health system inadequacies impact on long-term care admissions of people with dementia," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 121(12), pages 1280-1287.
    3. Iparraguirre, Jose Luis, 2020. "Reductions in local government spending on community-based social care and unmet social care needs of older people in England," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Elsevier, vol. 17(C).

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    Keywords

    Social care services; unpaid care; working carers; unmet need; barriers;
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    • E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook

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