Putting the Case Study in Context

Putting the Case Study in Context

1. 6 million people provide unpaid care, around 12%

   • 68% care for up to 19hpw
   • 11% care for between 20-49hpw
   • 21% care for over 50hpw

2. 58% are women, 42 % men

3. 51% care for someone they share a home with

4. 57% provide help with mobility

5. 22% give medicines

6. 71% provide other help

7. 70% of those on the recieveing end are over the age of 65

8. 38% care for parents

9. 18% care for spouses or partners

10. Young people who recive care often have the same feeling as an older person

    • Feeling a burden
      • Over protected adb cinstrained by their families
    • Fear
      • over a future when parents are no longer around to care for them
    • Isolation
      • Dont go out, there fore have no friends, limited visitors due to disability
    • Choice
      • Varies on individual, some fight to be able to socialise, where as others except that this is teh way it is going to be
      • asserting their need to develop own indempendence

11. Hussain et all (2002)

    • Young Asian disabled people

12. Parents caring for children

    • Determined to look after themsleves, know help is there
    • mistake of doing everything for her, made it too easy
    • Tried to make him independent
    • Family can ancipate the worse 'why did you bring her here'
    • Relucatnt of community to help and support unlike Pakistan