Knowledge generation and former carers: reflections and ways forward

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_x000D_ Whilst their increasing number is achieving some academic and public recognition, former carers occupy a liminal status, are often hidden, and experience a range of negative legacies related to caring This paper reflects on existing former carer research and explores the potential of a number of theories and concepts employed within the wider carers field extend understanding about the needs, situations and lived experiences of former carers and generate new knowledge about former caring as a process and a transition. These include feminist perspectives, lifecourse analysis, the ethic of care, the emotiospatial hermeneutic, emotional labour, social liminality, hybridity, biographical disruption and social identity. In so doing, the paper aims to open up debate about former carers and act as a platform for taking forward developments in research_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_

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