The burden facing women carers today.
An increasing proportion of elderly in the UK population, and changes in community care policies, will mean the bulk of responsibility for caring for the elderly, long-term sick and disabled will fall to women, writes Trudy Wynne. Here she assesses the likely scale of the impact.
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