Informal care in Europe: findings from the European Social Survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health

Against the background of a rising demand for informal care in European societies, this study sets out to provide descriptive information by gender on (i) prevalence rates of (intensive) informal caregiving, (ii) characteristics of (intensive) informal caregivers and (iii) consequences of (intensive) informal caregiving in terms of mental well-being.On average, 34.3% of the population in 20 European countries were informal caregivers and 7.6%...