Domiciliary Care: The Formal and Informal Labour Process [PDF]
, 2013 Domiciliary carers are paid care workers who travel to the homes of older people to assist with personal routines. Increasingly, over the past 20 years, the delivery of domiciliary care has been organised according to market principles and portrayed as ...
Bolton, Sharon. C, Wibberley, Gemma
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Choice in the context of informal care-giving [PDF]
, 2007 Extending choice and control for social care service users is a central feature of current English policies. However, these have comparatively little to say about choice in relation to the informal carers of relatives, friends or older people who are ...
Allen I. +57 more
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User costs and informal payments for care in the largest maternity hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Maternity care costs in Nepal include formal and informal payment. Formal include for example the cost for blood or drugs; Informal payments can be voluntary such as gratitude payments, or bribes which patients are ‘expected’ to pay to get ...
Sharma, Gaurav +4 more
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Lone parents and informal childcare: A tax credit childcare subsidy? [PDF]
, 2006 The Labour government aims to increase the lone parent employment rate to 70 per cent by 2010. To achieve this aim, it has introduced a state subsidy for childcare in the form of the childcare element of the Working Tax Credit.
Finch, Naomi, Skinner, Christine
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Caregiver Burden and Perceived Health Competence when Caring for Family Members Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose: To identify if there is a relationship between perceived health competence and burden of care of informal caregivers of family members with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD).
Bailes, Christine
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Engaging Family, Friend, and Neighbor Informal Caregivers [PDF]
, 2017 The David and Lucile Packard Foundation's Children, Families and Communities program is investing in exploratory projects to learn more about informal care settings.
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Informal and formal care in Europe [PDF]
, 2007 Government expenditure on formal residential care and home-help services for the elderly significantly reduces 45-59 year old women´s informal care-giving affecting both the extensive and the intensive margin.
Viitanen, T.K.
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Working Later in Illinois: Work Schedules, Incomes and Parents Access to Child Care [PDF]
, 2006 New research using federal government data shows that substantial numbers of Illinoisans work nonstandard schedules. Some 41 percent or about 2.5 million Illinois employees work either weekends or predominately non-daytime hours. The larger portion works
Marcia Stoll, Niwako Sugimura
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Does Informal Care from Children to their Elderly Parents Substitute for Formal Care in Europe? [PDF]
This paper analyzes the impact of informal care by adult children on the use of long-term care among the elderly in Europe and the effect of the level of the parent’s disability on this relationship. We focus on two types of formal home care that are the
Eric Bonsang
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Time-Bound Opportunity Costs of Informal Care: Consequences for Access to Professional Care, Caregiver Support, and Labour Supply Estimates [PDF]
Patterns of informal care are documented throughout the day with Dutch time use diary data. The diary data enable us to identify a, so far overlooked, source of opportunity costs of informal care, i.e.
Hassink, Wolter, van den Berg, Bernard
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