Sustainable Care is a collaborative research programme, bringing together academics from eight universities and Carers UK, and works with an extended network of national and international policy, practice and academic partners.
This report focuses on experiences of feeling lonely and of accessing support among a key group of carers in April and May 2020, during the official COVID-19 ‘lockdown’ period. It contrasts their experiences with those of other people. An estimated 6,048,286 adults in the UK provided care to someone living outside their own household in 2020. They are a ‘subset’ of the 10,991,440 estimated adult carers.
