@1985Deanne I thought it was a joke honestly he couldn’t care less about carers. He won’t be doing it for nothing. Come on Carers UK you can do better than Jeremy Vine .
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@muddymuddymum Roll a tennis ball on the bottom of your feet . It’s painful but worth it. Stand on a step stool with the balls of your feet and stretch your arches.
I do hope that the plan to reform social care (when it eventually arises) recognises that the need for care is not exclusively a situation that elderly people find themselves in, young disabled people will need support when the time comes that our families can't look after us any more.
Few things to remember @EdwardJDavey
If every unpaid carer stopped caring, the health and social care system would experience immediate and catastrophic failure.
Total system collapse - Unpaid carers provide care equivalent to millions of paid workers; removing this workforce would overwhelm every part of health and social care.
Hospital bed occupancy would surge instantly - People currently supported at home would require admission, filling all acute, community, and step‑down beds within days.
A&E departments would gridlock - Emergency departments would become holding areas for people with nowhere else to go, causing dangerous delays and clinical risk.
Social care would be unable to cope - Residential and domiciliary care services already operate at or beyond capacity; demand would exceed supply many times over.
Massive increase in demand for long‑term placements - Thousands would require immediate residential or nursing home care, which simply does not exist.
Rapid rise in safeguarding concerns - Adults and children who rely on carers for medication, nutrition, mobility, and safety would be left at significant risk.
Primary care would be overwhelmed - GP practices would face unprecedented demand for urgent appointments, medication management, and crisis intervention.
Community health teams would break down - District nurses, OTs, physios, mental health teams would face impossible caseloads.
Public health emergencies would emerge - Neglect, malnutrition, medication errors, falls, infections, and deterioration would spike dramatically.
Economic shock to the UK - Millions of people would need state-funded care; costs would run into hundreds of billions annually.
Workforce crisis would deepen - Paid care staff could not absorb the workload; burnout, resignations, and sickness absence would escalate.
Mortality rates would rise - Many people with complex needs would not survive without the daily care currently provided by unpaid carers.