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The high cost of unpaid care by young people:health and economic impacts of providing unpaid care [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Many countries worldwide have experienced reductions in provision of formal long-term care services amidst rising need for care. Provision of unpaid care, meanwhile, has grown. This includes care provided by young people. Care responsibilities
Nicola Brimblecombe +4 more
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Utilisation of Personal Care Services in Scotland: The Influence of Unpaid Carers
Journal of Long-Term Care, 2020 Context: Unpaid carers may have an influence on the formal care utilisation of the cared for. Whether this influence is positive or negative will have important implications for the costs of formal care provision.
Elizabeth Lemmon
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Social Sciences, 2018 Sharing responsibilities for paid work and unpaid care between men and women is recognised as one of the challenges that Western countries face in the 21st century.
Milla Salin +2 more
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Valuing Unpaid Care Work in Bhutan [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 A growing body of scholarly literature has attempted to measure and value unpaid care work in various countries, but perhaps only the government statistical agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom have seriously undertaken periodic and systematic measures of the time spent on unpaid work at the national level, and partially incorporated ...
Suh, Jooyeoun +3 more
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Double Fragility: The Care Crisis in the Time of the Pandemic
Gender a Výzkum, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and reinforced the structural crisis in paid and unpaid care work. On the one hand, pandemic-related closures of schools and childcare facilities increased the fragility of unpaid care arrangements, which are mainly ...
Alexandra Scheele +3 more
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The ‘visibility’ of unpaid care in England [PDF]
Journal of Social Work, 2015 Summary Social work practice is increasingly concerned with support not just for service users but also for unpaid carers. A key aspect of practice is the assessment of carers’ needs. The Government has recently passed legislation that will widen eligibility for carers’ assessments and remove the requirement ...
Pickard, Linda +2 more
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Journal of Long-Term Care, 2021 Context: Unpaid carers are the backbone of long-term care (LTC) systems around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has further increased the pressure many unpaid carers experience; however, their experience has been largely absent from public reporting ...
Klara Lorenz-Dant, Adelina Comas-Herrera
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Time Transfers by Age and Gender in 28 Countries
Socius, 2023 Transfers of services that are produced through unpaid care work (such as cooking, cleaning, shopping, household maintenance, and direct care) sustain our societies. Yet they differ considerably between genders and across countries.
Lili Vargha +2 more
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Identifying Family and Unpaid Caregivers in Electronic Health Records: Descriptive Analysis
JMIR Formative Research, 2022 BackgroundMost efforts to identify caregivers for research use passive approaches such as self-nomination. We describe an approach in which electronic health records (EHRs) can help identify, recruit, and increase diverse ...
Jessica E Ma +11 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2020 Background The lockdown imposed in the UK on the 23rd of March and associated public health measures of social distancing are likely to have had a great impact on care provision.
Clarissa Giebel +17 more
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