ABSTRACT
This paper draws upon the results of a survey of elderly people and their informal carers carried out in 1982-1983 in Sheffield, and funded by the Rowntree Memorial Trust. The 299 elderly people interviewed were a representative community sample, drawn from the lists of a number of GP practices. Fifty-eight carers were subsequently interviewed after they had been identified by the elderly people. Only carers living outside the person’s household were interviewed.
