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| Working and caring for older people in Europe - a three country comparison | | Author(s) | Dorothy Berry-Lound, Kevin Marsh |
| Corporate Author | HOST Consultancy; Help the Aged |
| Publisher | Help the Aged, London, 1996 |
| Pages | 38 pp |
| Source | fao: Kevin Marsh, Help the Aged, St James's Walk, London EC1R 0BE. |
| Keywords | Family care ; Employees ; Conditions of employment ; Comparison ; Social surveys ; Denmark ; Italy ; United Kingdom ; Europe. |
| Annotation | This survey compared the situation of employees who combine working with caring for older people in Denmark, Italy, and the United Kingdom, by questionnaire distributed to employees of a private company and a public sector organisation in each country. Of the respondents (40% response rate), some 37% identified themselves as carers. The report examines the relevance of caring as an issue to the workplace, the characteristics of care provision by employee carers, the economic consequences of the care which they provided, and the type of assistance that would support them. This research has reinforced many previous findings on the nature of combining working and caring, but the picture of the typical carer being female, aged 35-54 and working part-time does not necessarily apply. Implications for individual companies, the European Union and Member States are examined. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970415205 B |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: WK: WKA: 48: 3F: 76K: 76V: 8: 74 |
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