One in three over-80s 'provide vital unpaid care for loved ones' in UK

Figure has increased by a quarter in eight years, up to a million people

Almost one in three people aged 80 and older are providing vital, unpaid care for their loved ones, despite many suffering severe health issues of their own, according to research. The figure has increased by nearly a quarter in eight years.

This invisible army of oldest and most vulnerable people in the UK provide a total of 23m hours of unpaid care a week, or 1.2bn hours of care a year, according to figures from Age UK.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2PUSIO4