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Up to 762,000 people across the U.K. are providing unpaid care for someone living with a terminal illness every year, a report from the University of Sheffield and Marie Curie estimates.

The new report also reveals 13%–15% of end of life caregivers who live with the person they are caring for (at least 22,500) are believed to be living below the poverty line.

Alarmingly, this number sharply increases in the year following a bereavement (to 22%–32%, depending on the measure of poverty used) with funeral poverty, loss of benefits and pensions, housing insecurity and impacts on employment being considered as contributing factors.

The research was carried out by the University of Sheffield, University of Leeds and Loughborough University and provides the first ever U.K.

population level estimate of the number of end of life caregivers.

Professor Clare Gardiner, Professor of Palliative Care at the University of Sheffield, said, "This research reinforces the hugely important role