In Latvia, carers of dependent family members have no legal status (Rajevska, 2018). As a result, they are not covered by social insurance (health insurance is universal in Latvia) and are not eligible for paid leave. In Lithuania, non-working informal family carers are insured for basic ...
Rise of the Planet of the Apesreproduces many of the same tropes and conventions asDeep Blue Sea. The research, this time on captured primates, is driven by the child of a parent with dementia—in this instance, James Franco’s Will Rodman, an equally brilliant and driven neuroscientist wo...
Meanwhile, the KEEP intervention reported no differential effect according to carer ethnicity or number of months as a carer (Price et al., 2015). Evaluation of Pathways Home found that there was no differential effect according to parent relationship status (e.g. single). However, it was ...
Working carers deserve to receive more and more attention from welfare regimes and workplaces. Using the work–family interface approach, we analyzed the effects of the Family Audit workplace measures—an Italian work–life balance policy—on couple well
Women are disadvantaged in Universal Credit in a number of ways. Firstly, it resembles a return to the 1950s family wage model. Secondly, it entrenches traditional divisions of labour. The insistence of UC on dividing a couple with children into a “main earner” and a “main carer” (or...
With respect to marital status, 66.1% were married and 16.1% were single. Among the caregivers, 64.5% had a primary education, although 8.0% of the caregivers had no academic training whatsoever. Regarding occupation, most of the caregivers were not working at the time of the study, 40.3% ...