Carers

Question 1

What is a carer?

Answer 1

A person of any age, adult or child, who provides
unpaid support to a partner, child, relatve or friend
who wouldn’t manage to live independently or
whose health or wellbeing would deteriorate
without this help.
This could be due to frailty, disability or serious
health conditon, mental ill health or substance
misuse
Allowance- 67.60 per week, need to be >16yrs old

Question 2

What is the role of healthcare practitioners?

Answer 2

Prevent a crisis
• Manage and support in a crisis
• Advocate and support carers
• Challenge systems

Question 3

Impact on carers life?

Answer 3

life, fnances and employment
social life as a parent
more thoughts as a parent
emotonal impact of caring

Question 4

Care experiences of concordance

Answer 4

Concordance in healthcare is an agreement
reached after negotiation between a patent
and a healthcare professional that respects
the beliefs and wishes of the patent in
determining whether, when, and how etc

Question 4

Care experiences of concordance

Answer 4

Concordance in healthcare is an agreement
reached after negotiation between a patent
and a healthcare professional that respects
the beliefs and wishes of the patent in
determining whether, when, and how etc

Question 5

social determinants of health

Answer 5

he social determinants of health are the
circumstances in which people are born, grow
up, live, work and age
 The systems put in place to deal with illness –
including health, care and support .

In turn these are shaped by a wider set of
forces: economics, social policies and politics.
 Where people are in the social hierarchy
affects the conditions in which they grow,
learn, live, work and age, their vulnerability
to ill health and the consequences of ill
health

Question 6

What are the determinants of health inequality?

Answer 6

REsources/ money/ disposable income
Poverty
unemployement
trasport

Question 7

Monwy and resources

Answer 7

£1,000: an increase in household income
of this amount is associated with a 0.7
year increase in female healthy life
expectancy. Read more
 32% of people in the lowest income
category report less than good health. For
the highest income category the figure is
11%. Read more
 14.5 million people in the UK live in
poverty, equivalent to around 22% of the
population. R

Question 8

What is poverty

Answer 8

The definition used by a number of international
organisations (such as the UN and the World Bank) is that
you cannot afford the basic needs of life—food, clothing,
shelter and so on.
 An estimated 14.3 million people are in poverty in the UK
 8.3 million are working-age adults, 4.6 million are
children, and 1.3 million are of pension age
 Around 22% of people in UK are in poverty - 34% of
children and rising

Question 9

Unemployement

Answer 9

Work
 5.1 years is the average increase in male healthy life
expectancy for every 10 percentage points higher the
employment rate in an area. Read more
 3.8 million employees were furloughed in December
2020, down from a peak of 8.9 million in April.
Read more
 11% of all employees report their health as less than
good. Employees with low job security and low job
satisfaction are most likely to report poor health.
Read more
 1 in 3 employees experience two or more negative
aspects of job quality.

Question 10

trasnport

Answer 10

3x as many people who rate public transport as ‘good’ are
close to three times more likely than those who rate it as
‘poor’ to be able to access public services such as health
care, food shops or education. Read more
 1,190 early deaths could be prevented each year in England if
walking and cycling rates in all regions increase to the same
level as in the regions with the highest rates. Read more
 13,300km is the average distance travelled per person in
Great Britain in 2019, up from 4,400km in 1952. Read more
 Other issues:
 Air & noise pollution
 Road safety
 Participation & access to services
 Question % households in UK who have a car?
Domini Gunn-Peim

Question 11

Housing

Answer 11

28% of private renters in non-decent homes rate
their health as less than good, compared with 22%
living in decent homes. Read more
 1 in 3 households in England experience at least
one housing problem. Read more – see next slide
 26% of parents who moved home three or more
times rated their health as less than good,
compared to 14% who did not move. Read more
 2x Children in poverty were almost twice as likely
to have moved three or more times by the age of
14 years as children not in poverty. Read more