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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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Mapping the Unpaid Care Work Economy in Asia
Aging populations in Asia are worried that they are facing a "care crisis," with many older people in need of care having no one to care for them. However, we do not have a clear picture of current care patterns: How much care is currently being consumed? Who is providing that care? Are women and men serving equally as paid or unpaid caregivers?openaire +2 more sources
Women and Unpaid Care Work: A Review
2019This chapter examines the degree of attention paid to women as unpaid caregivers/providers in peacebuilding and the increased burden endured by women during and after war. It provides a literature review on unpaid care work in relation to peacebuilding.
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Cycles of caring: transitions in and out of unpaid care
2022Petrillo, Maria +2 more
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Care Life Expectancy: Gender and Unpaid Work in the Context of Population Aging
Population Research and Policy Review, 2021Ariane Ophir, Jessica Polos
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