Care is essential for social life but it no longer fits into contemporary life as it did in the past. This paper provides an international overview of the current impasse concerning those who are employed and seek to provide care, canvassing current and future possibilities for finding a way through the existing conflicts. With a particular focus on the issues that emerge regarding support of older (aged) care recipients, the paper first considers the demographic, economic and democratic and governmental policy causes of the current problems. It then examines the emerging care gap expressed through the joint crisis of informal and formal care. The final section considers the solutions proposed to help re-embed care in the societies of the 2...
This paper examines the increasing demand for long-term care services and the concurrent decrease in...
The purpose of this paper is to assess risks and prospects for older workers and to provide a number...
Care is no longer a private concern. In the era of high modernity, characterized by population aging...
Informal care provides the often hidden foundations of policies promoting care in the community and ...
Just as the responsibility of raising children islifting, many families face a new challenge—providi...
Faced with a historically unprecedented process of demographic ageing, many European societies imple...
Developing a trilayer analysis of global, national and individual perspectives, this book examines a...
Working carers are a key focus of UK policies on health and social care and employment. Complementin...
Ageing in place is a cost-effective policy solution to eldercare that reflects a dominant positive a...
The number of people who combine work and unpaid care is increasing rapidly as more people need care...
This thesis explores the ways in which care and care work, particularly formal care work in the spec...
The paper aims at analysing the ways of supporting informal carers in achieving and maintaining the ...
Recent developments in the provision of ongoing care have served to highlight the significance of in...
Unpaid carers of adults, as a group, have, until recently, been largely neglected by the EU. While a...
The paper investigates the ways in which different countries have addressed the question of making m...
This paper examines the increasing demand for long-term care services and the concurrent decrease in...
The purpose of this paper is to assess risks and prospects for older workers and to provide a number...
Care is no longer a private concern. In the era of high modernity, characterized by population aging...
Informal care provides the often hidden foundations of policies promoting care in the community and ...
Just as the responsibility of raising children islifting, many families face a new challenge—providi...
Faced with a historically unprecedented process of demographic ageing, many European societies imple...
Developing a trilayer analysis of global, national and individual perspectives, this book examines a...
Working carers are a key focus of UK policies on health and social care and employment. Complementin...
Ageing in place is a cost-effective policy solution to eldercare that reflects a dominant positive a...
The number of people who combine work and unpaid care is increasing rapidly as more people need care...
This thesis explores the ways in which care and care work, particularly formal care work in the spec...
The paper aims at analysing the ways of supporting informal carers in achieving and maintaining the ...
Recent developments in the provision of ongoing care have served to highlight the significance of in...
Unpaid carers of adults, as a group, have, until recently, been largely neglected by the EU. While a...
The paper investigates the ways in which different countries have addressed the question of making m...
This paper examines the increasing demand for long-term care services and the concurrent decrease in...
The purpose of this paper is to assess risks and prospects for older workers and to provide a number...
Care is no longer a private concern. In the era of high modernity, characterized by population aging...