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Health Services Insights, 2023 As health service delivery shifts from institutions to the home, greater care responsibilities are being imposed on unpaid caregivers. However, gaps remain concerning how these responsibilities are contributing to caregivers’ financial risk.
Husayn Marani +3 more
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Unpaid caregiving and stress among older working-age men and women in Sweden
SSM: Population Health, 2023 Many individuals are experiencing the potentially stressful combination of providing care while still employed. In this study, the association between unpaid caregiving to another adult and self-reported stress among men and women aged 45–74 is ...
Maria Stanfors, Josephine Jacobs
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CARE JUSTICE FOR UNPAID AND UNDERPAID CARE WORKERS
Innovation in Aging, 2023 Abstract Scholarship on older women, family caregiving, feminist gerontology, community-based services and policy change intersected throughout my career. As a social worker, care of older adults has always been a matter of social justice.
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'If I had a family, there is no way that I could afford to work here': juggling paid and unpaid care work in social services [PDF]
, 2015 Drawing on three case studies in each of Australia, New Zealand and Scotland, this article explores how care workers employed in the social services sector negotiate their unpaid care responsibilities in the context of lean work organization and low pay.
Baines, D +2 more
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Review of the international evidence on support for unpaid carers
Journal of Long-Term Care, 2018 Globally and locally, ongoing demographic, sociocultural and economic changes have implications for unpaid carers. For those who provide unpaid care, particularly at higher intensities, there is substantial evidence of negative effects on employment ...
Nicola Brimblecombe +4 more
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Home Care Reform in the Netherlands: Impacts on Unpaid Care in Rotterdam [PDF]
, 2009 : The 2007 change in the law of home care for household help in the Netherlands concerns competitive tendering at municipal level. This has reduced quality and choice for care receivers.
Staveren, I.P. (Irene) van
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Wellbeing, Space and Society, 2022 Summary: A measure of wellbeing cannot be reduced to the use that individuals make of their time, and some authors have warned that such an indicator is only of value in combination with a subjective measure of wellbeing.
Jacques Charmes
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National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and PharmacologyBackground: Worldwide women spend 4.5 h daily on unpaid work while men spend about half of that time. Aims and Objectives: The aims and objectives of the study are to estimate the time spent by both men and women on the various types of unpaid care ...
Deodatt M Suryawanshi +5 more
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Studia z Zakresu Prawa Pracy i Polityki Społecznej, 2021 Extended unpaid parental leave as the period of employment (not) favourable to parent employee.
Justyna Czerniak-Swędzioł +1 more
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Unpaid care, welfare conditionality and expropriation [PDF]
Gender, Work & Organization, 2021 AbstractWelfare conditionality where social security payments are conditional on recipients undertaking tasks such as training, submitting job applications and taking part in “work‐like” activities, is an enduring punitive feature of contemporary welfare provision in global North economics.
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