Full-time care suggested as debt reasons

Full-time carers risk needing debt solutions according to an expert, after their numbers more-than-doubled in the last decade.

The NHS reports that there are currently five million adults in England who are caring for a sick, elderly or disabled person, with over a fifth (22 per cent) providing more than 50 hours of care a week.

More than one in six (17 per cent) of Britain's carers admit that their quality of life was either "bad, very bad or so bad it could not be worse."

Imelda Redmond from Carers UK has urged the government to help carers ward off debt problems, remarking that "unless we act to change the way our country supports disabled and older people and those who care, we risk condemning families to ill-health, poverty and isolation."

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