The provision of unpaid care during the COVID-19 pandemic

This webinar forms part of the programme of work of LTCcovid.org. LTCcovid aims to document the impact of COVID-19 on people who rely on long-term care (including unpaid care) and those who provide it, share information about policy and practice measures to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in long-term care and gather evidence about their success or otherwise, and analyse the long-term implications of this pandemic for long-term care policy.

The provision of unpaid care during the COVID-19 pandemic

This webinar will focus on the experience of unpaid carers who support people with long-term care needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will hear evidence from research conducted in the UK and India and provide an overview of international evidence that also picks up on the type of support available for carers during the pandemic.

Speakers include:

Jayeeta Rajagopalan (STRiDE India, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, India)

Clarissa Giebel (Institute of Population Health Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK)

Klara Lorenz-Dant (CPEC, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)

More speakers to be confirmed

This webinar will start at 2pm UK time and will last for 90 minutes (60 minutes of presentations and 30 for discussion).

The webinar is free to attend with pre-registration.

The webinar will be recorded and the video will be shared on LTCcovid.org.