Research: The Information Worlds of Informal Carers From Inform II Magazine June 8th-14th 2020 marks Carers Week and we're taking a look back at some research featured in our Inform II Magazine about The Information Worlds of Informal Carers by Sheila Webber and Dr Pam McKinney. Here is the original article written by Richard Spencer, Sheila Webber and Dr Pam McKinney: The combination of an ageing population, and the increasing frequency of people moving around the country to follow their ambitions is causing untold numbers of people real difficulties when it comes to caring for their elderly or infirm relatives whilst in different locations. ‘The original stimulus for the research was my experience of caring for my own mother at a distance’, says Senior Lecturer Sheila Webber, who is researching these issues with Dr Pam McKinney. ‘She was in Sussex whilst I was in Sheffield, and although I consider myself information literate, I was very stressed by the in...
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