InterestsLinda Pickard is a Research Fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the London School of Economics (LSE). Linda has worked at the LSE since 1996 on a project concerned with future long-term care demand and finance. Linda is now also working on a project, in collaboration with colleagues at the LSE and elsewhere, concerned with modelling needs and resource of older people to 2030, funded by an ESRC research grant under their New Dynamics of Ageing research programme. Linda is particularly interested in informal or unpaid care for older people and has, in collaboration with colleagues at the LSE and elsewhere, conducted research on projections of informal care in future years in the UK and internationally. Linda has also completed work on policy options for informal carers for the Royal Commission on Long Term Care and, more recently, written reviews for the Audit Commission on the effectiveness of services for informal carers and on caring and employment. In addition, Linda is engaged on a doctoral thesis concerned with recent past trends in the provision of intergenerational care for older people by their children. Linda’s original training was in Social & Political Science at Cambridge University and in Sociology at the University of Oxford.
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