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Unpaid carers' access to and use of primary care services [PDF]

Primary Health Care Research and Development, 2005
GPs and members of the primary care team have a pivotal role in supporting unpaid carers in their caring role and helping them to maintain their own health and well-being. This paper investigates the difference that caregiving makes to individuals’ access to and use of GP and primary care services.
Arksey, Hilary, Hirst, Michael Anthony
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Unpaid work and conformity: why care?

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014
We study the supply of unpaid eldercare (in particular caring for parents) in the UK, focusing on both the division of care and caring tasks by gender and the effect of conformity to social norms in relation to caring. We then investigate the effect of the amount of care on the well-being of caregivers and whether agreeing with the care norm enhances ...
Della Giusta, M, Jewell, S
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Perceived technology usefulness for caregiving among unpaid caregivers: a National Cross-Sectional Study

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundTechnological advancements have the potential to improve caregiving quality and alleviate caregiver burden by providing tools for real-time communication, monitoring, and care coordination.
Matthew Lee Smith, Matthew Lee Smith, Shinduk Lee, Malinee Neelamegam, Deborah Vollmer Dahlke, Deborah Vollmer Dahlke, Deborah Vollmer Dahlke, Jodi L. Southerland, Zachary G. Baker, Kris Pui Kwan Ma, Darina V. Petrovsky, Zahra Rahemi, Justine S. Sefcik, Juanita-Dawne R. Bacsu, Chung Lin Kew, Chung Lin Kew, Marcia G. Ory, Marcia G. Ory   +17 more
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The real-world problem of care coordination: a longitudinal qualitative study with patients living with advanced progressive illness and their unpaid caregivers.

PLoS ONE, 2014
ObjectivesTo develop a model of care coordination for patients living with advanced progressive illness and their unpaid caregivers, and to understand their perspective regarding care coordination.DesignA prospective longitudinal, multi-perspective ...
Barbara A Daveson, Richard Harding, Cathy Shipman, Bruce L Mason, Eleni Epiphaniou, Irene J Higginson, Clare Ellis-Smith, Lesley Henson, Dan Munday, Veronica Nanton, Jeremy R Dale, Kirsty Boyd, Allison Worth, Stephen Barclay, Anne Donaldson, Scott Murray   +15 more
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Marxist Perspectives on the Global Enclosures of Social Reproduction

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2018
Women’s unpaid care and domestic work is gaining relevance in policy-making as well as in academia. Feminist scholars and activists have lobbied successfully for the integration of unpaid care and domestic work into the Sustainable Development Goals ...
Friederike Beier
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Cardiovascular disease risk among Australian unpaid carers - A survival analysis using 15 waves of the HILDA survey.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundEngaging in chronically stressful behaviours has been hypothesised to increase the risk of experiencing cardiovascular disease (CVD). Providing unpaid care is known to be a stressful activity, but it is not clear whether this caregiving is ...
Ameer Lambrias, Yamna Taouk, Jennifer Ervin, Tania King   +3 more
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Gender, unpaid labour and economics

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2016
Unpaid labour, including care labour is mostly performed by women. Economic theories explain differences in allocation of time between women and men in various ways – neoclassical theories point to the rational choice associated with the varying ...
Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz
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Geographic differences in the unpaid caregiver experience from the National Study of Caregiving (NSOC)

Rural and Remote Health, 2020
Introduction: The objective of this cross-sectional, descriptive study was to identify unpaid caregiver differences in demographics, competing work responsibilities, support, health, caregiver burden, and interaction with healthcare professionals in US ...
Mara Rosenberg, Elizabeth Eckstrom
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Barriers to accessing and receiving mental health care for paid and unpaid carers of older adults

Health Expectations
Aim The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the barriers and facilitators to accessing and receiving mental health care for paid and unpaid carers of older adults.
Clarissa Giebel, Laura Prato, Sue Metcalfe, Hazel Barrow   +3 more
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Making family caregiving work pay: a reassessment of bargaining power within the household

Sociedad y Economía
Literature shows that bargaining power within the household explains consumption patterns, fertility decisions and time use.  Considering the gender differences in decision making power and recognising the importance of unpaid care work, in this paper ...
Kelly Johana Silva Aldana, David Arturo Rodríguez Guerrero   +1 more
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