Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK; South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Beckenham, UK.
Department of Experimental Psychology, and Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Lancet Psychiatry. 2021 Oct;8(10):929-936. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00206-6.
Informal (unpaid) carers are an integral part of all societies and the health and social care systems in the UK depend on them. Despite the valuable contributions and key worker status of informal carers, their lived experiences, wellbeing, and needs have been neglected during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this Health Policy, we bring together a broad range of clinicians, researchers, and people with lived experience as informal carers to share their thoughts on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on UK carers, many of whom have felt abandoned as services closed. We focus on the carers of children and young people and adults and older adults with mental health diagnoses, and carers of people with intellectual disability or neurodevelopmental conditions across different care settings over the lifespan. We provide policy recommendations with the aim of improving outcomes for all carers.
非正式（无报酬）护理人员是所有社会的重要组成部分，英国的卫生和社会保健系统依赖于他们。尽管非正式护理人员做出了宝贵的贡献，并具有关键工作者的地位，但在 COVID-19 大流行期间，他们的生活经历、福祉和需求一直被忽视。在本项卫生政策中，我们汇集了广泛的临床医生、研究人员和有过非正式护理经验的人员，分享他们对 COVID-19 大流行对英国护理人员的影响的看法，许多护理人员在服务关闭时感到被抛弃。我们重点关注儿童和青少年以及有心理健康诊断的成年人和老年人的护理人员，以及在整个生命周期不同护理环境中有智力残疾或神经发育障碍的人的护理人员。我们提供政策建议，旨在改善所有护理人员的结果。
