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Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and unpaid care work on informal workers' livelihoods [PDF]

International Labour Review, 2022
Michael Rogan
exaly   +2 more sources

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
doaj   +3 more sources

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, Changa Dorji, Mercer-Blackman, Valerie, Hampel-Milagrosa, Aimée   +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, Helene Schiffbänker, David Walker, Greta Wienkamp   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impacts of COVID-19 on Unpaid Carers of Adults with Long-Term Care Needs and Measures to Address these Impacts: A Rapid Review of Evidence up to November 2020

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
doaj   +3 more sources

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, Bernhard Binder-Hammer, Gretchen Donehower   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Janet Grubber, Cynthia J Coffman, Virginia Wang, S Nicole Hastings, Kelli D Allen, Megan Shepherd-Banigan, Kasey Decosimo, Joshua Dadolf, Caitlin Sullivan, Nina R Sperber, Courtney H Van Houtven   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decision-making for receiving paid home care for dementia in the time of COVID-19: a qualitative study

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, Kerry Hanna, Jacqueline Cannon, Ruth Eley, Hilary Tetlow, Anna Gaughan, Aravind Komuravelli, Justine Shenton, Carol Rogers, Sarah Butchard, Steve Callaghan, Stan Limbert, Manoj Rajagopal, Kym Ward, Lisa Shaw, Rosie Whittington, Mishca Hughes, Mark Gabbay   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unpaid Care: Global Growth and Policies for Sustainability [PDF]

, 2020
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of 2015, endorsed by the United Nations, details 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The purpose of these goals is to address global challenges faced by nation states, including inequality. The fifth goal (SDG 5) is to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” and target 5.4 specifically ...
Oldridge, L, Larkin, M
openaire   +1 more source

Families of children with disabilities: income poverty, material deprivation, and unpaid care in the UK

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Child disability and provision of unpaid care by parents may contribute to a family’s poverty status. In this paper, using data from the Family Resources Survey-2018/19, a sample of 5451 families with dependent children was analysed.
Ana Maria Nicoriciu, Mark Elliot
doaj   +1 more source