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Caught in the triangle — the influence of home, work and elder location on work-family balance
Author(s)	Alun E Joseph, Bonnie C Hallman
Journal title	Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 15, no 3, Autumn 1996
Pages	pp 393-412
Keywords	The Family ; Employment ; Informal care ; Geographical distance ; Arrangement ; Canada.
Annotation	This paper investigates the geographical context in which employed caregivers provide assistance to their elderly relatives. It examines the impact of the spatial arrangement of an employed caregiver's home, his workplace, and the care recipient's home - the 'locational triangle' - on work-family balance. Analysis of data from a national study on work and family by the Canadian Aging Research Network (CARNET) indicates that parameters of the location triangle have discernible impacts on levels of perceived stress and interference, and on the incidence of certain job effects and coping behaviours. Bearing in mind the impacts of longer journeys to work and increased distance from older relative(s) on stress and interference levels, the authors advocate more active consideration of the geographical and spatial contexts of caregiving in policy-making and research.
Accession Number	CPA-970212022 A
Classmark	SJ: WJ: P6: RJ: 5D: 7S
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