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Combining employment and caregiving — an intricate juggling act
Author(s)	Nancy Guberman, Pierre Maheu
Journal title	Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 18, no 1, Spring 1999
Pages	pp 84-106
Keywords	Women as carers ; Employment ; Family relationships ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Social surveys ; Canada.
Annotation	Many studies have attempted to identify specific aspects of eldercare and of the caregiver's situation which are likely to interfere with employment. The aim of the Canadian study on which this article is based is to understand how 25 French-speaking Quebecois women who are employed and have primary care-giving responsibilities to a dependent adult family member manage to juggle the demands put on them. They achieve a balance by a complex process of co-ordination, negotiation, and mediation which the authors call "juggling work", and which itself is determined by a series of factors, conditions and contextual elements. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990719209 A
Classmark	P6:SH: WJ: DS:SJ: F: 3F: 7S
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