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Why can it be difficult to decise whether or not a person is an informal carer and does it matter?

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Why can it be difficult to decide whether or not a person is an informal carer and does it matter? Base your answer on the case of someone you know, or have read about in K100. How can we determine as to whether a person is an informal carer, and why should we be labelling people? It is said that there are four complications that need to be considered when deciding to label a person as an informal carer * Interdependence * Duration and frequency * Labelling * Networks I am going to be looking at all four of these taking experiences from my personal life, and also looking at other sources to try and ascertain why it is difficult, and whether it matters to label people as informal carers. I will be looking into my Father Andrew's experience with informal care as my case study. Andrew was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis a few years...

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