| 194 the burden of both groups. We aimed to recruit an ethnically diverse sample and were able to include informal caregivers who did not identify as White British within our small sample. However, all included social care workforce were female, we failed to include the perspective of any male social care workers (68). A limitation of this study centres around the lack of distinction between types of social care support. Informal caregiver participants did not always distinguish between types of support, e.g., homecare or other types of care such as residential or day centres. This may have implications for the transferability of our findings, and our ability to conclude whether these findings apply to social care generally or are specific to homecare, for example. Conclusion Whilst social care support can reduce carer burden, we found that experiences with accessing and using such services were mixed whereby negative experiences were linked to increased carer burden. Improvements in the social care systems are needed to foster positive experiences with using and accessing social care for informal caregivers. Whilst it has been well documented that multi-domain interventions are most promising in reducing carer burden (11), the authors pose that more attention to social care as one of the potential aspects of multi-domain interventions can be beneficial and requires more attention and improvement.
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