• Carers always need respite, but with pandemic quarantines in place, they're finding fewer opportunities to take breaks. Carers around the world are facing three key pressure points: emotional support, technology, and homecare Top Responsibilities That Have Increased Due to the Pandemic: ...
We investigated the effects of providing care for 10 or more hours a week or within the household in interaction with people's socio-demographic characteristics. Outcomes included mental and physical health, social isolation, employment status and earnings. We found that caring responsibilities ...
In diaspora and transnational studies little is known about the experiences of transnational carer-employees (TCEs). TCEs provide unpaid/informal care across international borders to an adult family member, friend, or relative with disability and/or age-related needs, while also working in paid emp...
Study participants have substantial caregiving responsibilities (>11), with half providing personal care to a parent. The majority experienced school problems and conflict with parents (60 and 92 % respectively). Caregiving tasks were associated with problems with school and conflict with the ill paren...
The benefits to employers of employment policies and practices that explicitly recognize the increasing domestic responsibilities of current and potential ... S Bevan - Who Cares? A Report Commissioned by the LV Group on: the Business Benefits of Carer-Friendly Employment Practices 被引量: 24发表:...
The survey, which canvassed the views of more than 2,900 UK carers, also showed that an alarming 74% of carers currently in paid employment use their annual leave when they need time off because of their caring responsibilities. It was generally recognised that carers need more flexible workin...
Moreover, the role of the carer has shifted from promotion of gradual recovery to one of increased responsibility in the provision of more complex and prolonged care responsibilities [7, 8]. The provision of care is often physically, emotionally, socially and financially demanding which results ...
This care can be provided in both formal and informal settings: formally by people employed in the health care sector and informally by relatives or friends. Informal carers are generally not paid for their caring responsibilities, but these responsibilities can have an impact on the capacity of ...
1.1. Trends in Young Carer Research Early research by Loughborough University’s Young Carers Research Group [2,3] focused on the social issue of children and young people providing inappropriate responsibilities, sometimes without the support of other family members and services, and how these respon...