Linda Pickard

Linda Pickard is a Senior Research Fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the London School of Economics (LSE). Linda is currently leading a research project funded by the School for Social Care Research (SSCR) entitled 'Overcoming Barriers: Unpaid Care and Employment'.

Linda has, in collaboration with colleagues at the LSE and elsewhere, conducted research on projections of unpaid care in future years in the UK and internationally.  Linda has recently produced a report on the supply of unpaid care in Europe, as part of the Assessing Needs of Care in European Nations (ANCIEN) project.

Linda has in the past completed work on policy options for unpaid carers for the Royal Commission on Long Term Care and written reviews for the Audit Commission on the effectiveness of services for unpaid carers and on caring and employment. Linda has also conducted research, using 2001 Census data, on unpaid care and the family for the Office for National Statistics, which was published in Focus on Families.

In addition, Linda has recently completed a doctoral thesis concerned with recent past trends in the provision of intergenerational care for older people by their children. Linda has worked at the LSE since 1996. Linda's original training was in Social & Political Science at Cambridge University and in Sociology at the University of Oxford.

Recent Publications

• The role of care home fees in the public costs and distributional effects of potential reforms to care home funding for older people in England
  Hancock, Ruth and Malley, Juliette and Wittenberg, Raphael and Morciano, Marcello and Pickard, Linda and King, Derek and Comas-Herrera, Adelina (2012) The role of care home fees in the public costs and distributional effects of potential reforms to care home funding for older people in England. Health economics, policy and law . pp. 1-27. ISSN 1744-1331 (Submitted)
• From commission to commission: financing long-term care in England
  Comas-Herrera, Adelina and Wittenberg, Raphael and Pickard, Linda (2011) From commission to commission: financing long-term care in England. In: Courbage, Christophe and Costa-i-Font, Joan, (eds.) Financing long-term care in Europe: institutions, markets and models. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 151-169. ISBN 9780230249462
• The supply of informal care in Europe
  Pickard, Linda (2011) The supply of informal care in Europe. Research Report , 94. European Network of Economic Policy Research Units (ENEPRI) . ISBN 9789461381224
• The effect of lengthening life expectancy on future pension and long-term care expenditure in England, 2007 to 2032
  Malley, Juliette and Hancock, Ruth and Murphy, Michael J. and Adams, John and Wittenberg, Raphael and Comas-Herrera, Adelina and Curry, Chris and King, Derek and James, Sean and Morciano, Marcello and Pickard, Linda (2011) The effect of lengthening life expectancy on future pension and long-term care expenditure in England, 2007 to 2032. Health statistics quarterly, 52 (1). pp. 33-61. ISSN 1465-1645
• Substitution between formal and informal care: a ‘natural experiment’ in social policy in Britain between 1985 and 2000
  Pickard, Linda (2011) Substitution between formal and informal care: a ‘natural experiment’ in social policy in Britain between 1985 and 2000. Ageing and society, Online . pp. 1-29. ISSN 0144-686X
• Demographic change and its implications for health, family support, need for care and pensions: results from the modelling ageing populations to 2030 (MAP2030) study
  Jagger, Carol and Murphy, Michael J. and Comas-Herrera, Adelina and Grundy, Emily and Hancock, Ruth and Pickard, Linda (2010) Demographic change and its implications for health, family support, need for care and pensions: results from the modelling ageing populations to 2030 (MAP2030) study. The gerontologist, 50 (S1). p. 303. ISSN 0016-9013
• The long road to universalism?: recent developments in the financing of long-term care in England
  Comas-Herrera, Adelina and Wittenberg, Raphael and Pickard, Linda (2010) The long road to universalism?: recent developments in the financing of long-term care in England. Social policy & administration, 44 (4). pp. 375-391. ISSN 0144-5596
• Care home fees and reform of the funding system for long-term care
  Hancock, Ruth and Morciano, Marcello and Malley, Juliette and King, Derek and Pickard, Linda and Comas-Herrera, Adelina (2010) Care home fees and reform of the funding system for long-term care. The Stationery Office , London, UK.
• The future of informal care and its potential implications for social care policy
  Pickard, Linda (2009) The future of informal care and its potential implications for social care policy. House of Commons Health Committee , London, UK.
• Sources of informal care: comparison of ELSA and GHS
  Pickard, Linda (2008) Sources of informal care: comparison of ELSA and GHS. PSSRU discussion paper, 2598. Personal Social Services Research Unit, London, UK.

For a full list of Linda's publications, please see her LSE Research Online page|.

Key Publications

Pickard, Linda and Wittenberg, Raphael and Comas-Herrera, Adelina and King, Derek and Malley, Juliette (2007) Care by spouses, care by children: projections of informal care for older people in England to 2031. Social Policy and Society, 6, 3, 353-66.

Pickard, Linda and Comas-Herrera, Adelina and Costa-Font Joan and Gori Cristiano and di Maio, Alessandra and Patxot, Concepció and Pozzi, Alessandro and Rothgang Heinz and Raphael Wittenberg (2007)  Modelling an entitlement to long-term care services in Europe: Projections for long-term care expenditure to 2050. Journal of European Social Policy, 17, 1, 33-48.  

Pickard, Linda (2007) Unpaid care and the family. In Office for National Statistics Multi-Source Topic Report (MSTR) Focus on the Family. London: ONS.

Pickard, Linda (2004) The Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of Support and Services to Informal Carers of Older People. A Review of the Literature prepared for the Audit Commission.  London: Audit Commission. http://www.pssru.ac.uk/archive/pdf/dp2014.pdf |

Pickard, Linda (2004) Caring for Older people and Employment. A Review of the Literature prepared for the Audit Commission.  London: Audit Commission. http://www.pssru.ac.uk/archive/pdf/dp2015.pdf |

Pickard,Linda (2002) The decline of intensive intergenerational care of older people in Great Britain, 1985-1995, Population Trends, Winter 2002, 110, pages 31-41.

Pickard, Linda (2001) Carer Break or Carer Blind? Policies for Informal Carers in the UK. Social Policy and Administration, Volume 35, Number 4, pages 441-458. ISSN 0144-5596 

Pickard, Linda and Wittenberg Raphael and Comas-Herrera Adelina and Davies Bleddyn and Darton Robin (2000) Relying on Informal Care in the New Century? Informal Care for Elderly People in England to 2031.  Ageing and Society, Volume 20, pages 745-772. ISSN 0144-686X

Linda Pickard (1999) Policy Options for Informal Carers of Elderly People, in With Respect to Old Age: Long Term Care - Rights and Responsibilities, Research Volume Three of the Report of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care, Cm 4192-II/3, The Stationery Office, London. ISBN 0-10-14923-6