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| Informal care of older people | | Author(s) | Julia Twigg |
| Journal title | IN: The social policy of old age: moving into the 21st century; edited by Miriam Bernard and Judith Phillips, 1998 |
| Publisher | Centre for Policy on Ageing, London, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 128-141 |
| Source | Central Books, 50 Freshwater Road, Chadwell Heath, Dagenham, RM8 1RX. |
| Keywords | Family care ; Community care ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | This chapter reviews the emergence of care as an area of debate for academics and policy makers, and how it has interacted with other social policies and concerns. The author outlines the role of the family in informal care, the recognition of its prevalence with inclusion of questions about caregiving in the General Household Survey (GHS), and assumptions made by the state. Her main focus is on the role of women, the nature of carework, the rights of disabled people, and the effectiveness of community care. From being a fairly peripheral subject, carers and caring have become prominent in social policy. They now lie at the heart of other debates concerning the nature of the welfare state, the character of carework, the relationship of the paid and unpaid economies, and the future of intergenerational relations. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980311013 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: PA: TM2 |
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