'You really do give up your own life, once you become a full-time carer': exploring the lived experience of carers in South Essex

Guest, Carly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2072-3519, Corrigan, Oonagh and Koffman, Ofra (2015) 'You really do give up your own life, once you become a full-time carer': exploring the lived experience of carers in South Essex. Project Report. Healthwatch Essex, Essex, UK. . [Monograph]

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Abstract

This study places the lived experience of carers at its centre, attending in particular to the day-to-day experience of caring and of formal and informal support provision. It is set in the context of important changes to UK social care provision outlined in the Care Act 2014.

Item Type: Monograph (Project Report)
Keywords (uncontrolled): Unpaid carers, emotion, temporality, young carers, care act, lived experience
Research Areas: A. > School of Law > Criminology and Sociology
Item ID: 18951
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Depositing User: Carly Guest
Date Deposited: 03 Mar 2016 14:57
Last Modified: 29 Nov 2022 22:31
URI: https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/18951

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