Three million unpaid carers spending own money supporting elderly

A quarter of the population is involved in providing some form of care for older family or friends, it finds.

And almost one in five of them regularly spend at least £100 a month.

The figures emerge from a report detailing how a “secret generation” of carers is helping prop up Britain’s crumbling social care system.

Of more than 2,000 people polled for the study, 24 per cent said they regularly care for an older relative or friend.

For some it involved short visits amounting to less than an hour a week but for more than one in 10 of those polled – the equivalent of more than six million people – said it equates to a commitment of up to seven hours a week.

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