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2018
This POSTnote looks at the numbers of unpaid carers across the UK, and the amount and type of care provided. It examines the impacts of providing unpaid care on carers' education, employment, finances, health and wellbeing, and personal and social relationships.
Aine Kelly, Caroline Kenny
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This POSTnote looks at the numbers of unpaid carers across the UK, and the amount and type of care provided. It examines the impacts of providing unpaid care on carers' education, employment, finances, health and wellbeing, and personal and social relationships.
Aine Kelly, Caroline Kenny
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Unpaid Care Policies in the UK
2023This book examines policies on unpaid care in the UK since the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act, questioning why, after decades of policies and strategies, unpaid care remains in a marginal position in the social care system and in society more broadly, as demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Introduction and background to unpaid care in the UK
2023This chapter sets out the aims of the book. It poses key questions about the place of care within the social and cultural contexts of the UK. It highlights the gap between the rhetoric and realities of policies and strategies to support unpaid carers since the 1990s and points to the way in which this will be examined in subsequent chapters.
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Working with Older People, 2008
Caring takes time and, as we know, time costs. With an ageing population that is living longer, there is less time and less money to be allocated to older people. In this article, Alex Fox looks at the role of and contribution made by informal carers to the social care system and says that more should be done to recognise their skills and knowledge as ...
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Caring takes time and, as we know, time costs. With an ageing population that is living longer, there is less time and less money to be allocated to older people. In this article, Alex Fox looks at the role of and contribution made by informal carers to the social care system and says that more should be done to recognise their skills and knowledge as ...
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Learning Disabilities and the Value of Unpaid Care
2021People with learning disabilities draw on different types of support to enable them to live rich and fulfilling lives. But the support given by unpaid carers is often overlooked and undervalued. We surveyed unpaid carers of adults with a learning disability and found that: ■ On average, the support delivered by each unpaid carer in our sample would ...
Congreve, Emma, Watts, Robert
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2018
This paper argues that relationships between paid caregivers and care recipients should be eligible for equivalent legal protections as other adult-caring relationships. Care workers (or intimate workers, or domestic workers) are a vulnerable group; in law, they are not fully protected as workers or as family members, although they often form close ...
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This paper argues that relationships between paid caregivers and care recipients should be eligible for equivalent legal protections as other adult-caring relationships. Care workers (or intimate workers, or domestic workers) are a vulnerable group; in law, they are not fully protected as workers or as family members, although they often form close ...
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Unpaid informal carers: The ‘shadow’ workforce in health care
2020Much of the international literature on health human resources focuses on highly trained, regulated and visible professionals with exclusionary social closure in neo-Weberian terms, such as doctors and nurses. However, researchers and policy makers are now paying more attention to the increasingly important role played by less well-trained, often ...
A. Paul Williams, Janet M. Lum
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The Ethics of Care and the Conceptualization of Unpaid Care Work
2019This chapter discusses two themes: care work and the ethics of care. In addition, it justifies the research methodology employed. The first part discusses care and its related concepts (caregiving, caring, caregiver, formal and informal care, and care burden, etc.) in its entirety. It then goes further to specify the type of care described in this book.
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The Care Economy in Africa: Subsistence Production and Unpaid Care
Journal of African Economies, 2014What do we know about the extent and value of the care economy in Africa, and why does this matter? This paper outlines a theoretical framework for analysing the care economy, including both the paid and unpaid work of caring for dependents and the flow of financial resources through the family, the community, the state and the market.
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