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National and State Societal Costs of Schizophrenia in the US in 2024.

open access: yesJAMA Psychiatry
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Unpaid Care Policies in the UK

2023
This book examines policies on unpaid care in the UK since the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act, questioning why, after decades of policies and strategies, unpaid care remains in a marginal position in the social care system and in society more broadly, as demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The cost of unpaid caring

Working with Older People, 2008
Caring takes time and, as we know, time costs. With an ageing population that is living longer, there is less time and less money to be allocated to older people. In this article, Alex Fox looks at the role of and contribution made by informal carers to the social care system and says that more should be done to recognise their skills and knowledge as ...
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Introduction and background to unpaid care in the UK

2023
This chapter sets out the aims of the book. It poses key questions about the place of care within the social and cultural contexts of the UK. It highlights the gap between the rhetoric and realities of policies and strategies to support unpaid carers since the 1990s and points to the way in which this will be examined in subsequent chapters.
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Learning Disabilities and the Value of Unpaid Care

2021
People with learning disabilities draw on different types of support to enable them to live rich and fulfilling lives. But the support given by unpaid carers is often overlooked and undervalued. We surveyed unpaid carers of adults with a learning disability and found that: ■ On average, the support delivered by each unpaid carer in our sample would ...
Congreve, Emma, Watts, Robert
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