Millions of unpaid carers in the UK are “living an agony” while propping up an outdated, fragmented and confusing social care system, Louise Casey , the head of the government’s adult social care commission, has said. Lady Casey, who is leading an independent review of adult social care, criticised a system that “still behaves as if we are living in 1948 and not 2026” by relying on female carers to plug gaps in services. She said it was no longer sustainable to depend on predominantly female unpaid carers and poorly paid care workers to hold the system together until they hit crisis point. Speaking at a Carers UK conference in London on Thursday, Casey said caring placed an enormous emotional burden on unpaid carers, who were primarily women “expected to absorb risk, stress and responsibility so the system doesn’t have to … This can’t go on any longer,” she said.…