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| Family and aging policy | | Author(s) | Francis G Caro |
| Publisher | Haworth Press, Inc., 2006 |
| Pages | 237 pp |
| Source | The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. http://www.HaworthPress.com |
| Keywords | Family care ; Social policy ; United States of America ; Sweden ; Denmark ; Spain ; Singapore. |
| Annotation | Papers are mostly concerned with the role of the family in providing long-term care; and all but one are about aspects of caregiving. 11 articles focus on elder care, while another deals with grandparents caring for their grandchildren. The volume begins with articles on Sweden, Denmark, Singapore and Canada, which illustrate the universality of the tension between family and public responsibility for elder care. However, in each of these countries, families willingly play the major role in long-term care. In contrast to the "international view" of the first few papers, the remainder deal with caregiving in the US, starting with a commentary on the Family and Medical Leave Act 1993 (FMLA) and its provision for unpaid leave for up to 12 weeks in any one year. Other papers deal with: employment and elder care; respite care; the implications for policy of community-based care programmes; intergenerational housing; assisted living; and the changes in State rules during the 1990s on inheritance issues and Medicaid eligibility. Published simultaneously in the Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 18, nos 3/4. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070530208 B |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: TM2: 7T: 76P: 76K: 76S: 7XD |
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