The Princess Royal Trust For Carers - Context

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The number of carers in increasing as the population ages and people with disabilities and serious illnesses live longer and are more likely to live at home. Over the next three decades, the number of carers will increase by around 60% or 3.4 million carers.

In addition, the country is becoming increasingly reliant on carers to deliver the new style of care for people with long term conditions, such as the home based and patient led care outlined in the Health White Paper, Our health, Our care, Our say. The new policy drive for home based, individually tailored care must include a focus on carers to avoid care packages collapsing when an unpaid family carer cannot carry on. Even without the increases in quality the government wishes, the costs of care for older people will double by 2020.

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