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Making intergenerational care a possibility in Australia
— a review of the Australian legislation | | Author(s) | Katrina Radford, Deborah Oxlade, Anneke Fitzgerald, Nerina Vecchio |
| Journal title | Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, vol 14, no 2, April-June 2016 |
| Publisher | Routledge, April-June 2016 |
| Pages | pp 119-134 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline,com |
| Keywords | Children [offspring] as carers ; Social policy ; Law ; Literature reviews ; Australia. |
| Annotation | In the Australian context, the out-of-home care of children and respite service for older adults are segregated. Yet, internationally there has been a shift toward intergenerational programmes that purposefully bring together younger and older people for mutual benefits. This paper examines the enablers of, supports for, and constraints of introducing intergenerational care programmes (IGC) within the Australian legislation and regulations of child-care and aged-care programmes. In doing so, programme design features, workforce strategies, and built environment are considered. The literature indicates that the meshing of standards into IGC programmes provides an opportunity to make intergenerational care an attractive model for respite to caregivers and recipients of care, while providing intergenerational contact for younger families. Such a programme is likely to be cost effective with economies-of-scale workforce efficiencies. Future research will involve a needs assessment of potential consumers, to explore the possible demand for intergenerational care programmes within Australia before conducting a trial of different intergenerational care programmes. |
| Accession Number | CPA-160805235 A |
| Classmark | P6:SS: TM2: VR: 64A: 7YA |
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