Tired of spinning plates

Often when people talk about carers in the media or in research, they think about people caring for older adults but carers of adults with learning disabilities make up a quarter of all carers in the UK.

We know little about the experiences of carers of adults with learning disabilities. We want to find out more about their lives, how caring impacts on their mental health, in positive and perhaps less positive ways. 

We want to know about the support and services they currently receive and what carers think about the quality and availability of that support.

And, most importantly, we’d like to know what support they would find helpful.

The research involves carers, people with learning disabilities and researchers working together. We will use what we find out to produce information for carers and for people with learning disabilities as well as teaching and learning materials for professionals working with carers of adults with learning disabilities.