As Populations Age Around The World, Increasing Efforts Are Required From Both Families And Governments To Secure Care And Support For Older And Disabled People.at The Same Time Both Women And Men Are Expected To Increase And Lengthen Their Participation In Paid Work, Which Makes Combining Caring And Working A Burning Issue For Social And Employment Policy And Economic Sustainability. International Discussion About The Reconciliation Of Work And Care Has Previously Focused Mostly On Childcare. Combining Paid Work And Family Care Widens The Debate, Bringing Into Discussion The Experiences Of Those Providing Support To Their Partners, Older Relatives And Disabled Or Seriously Ill Children. The Book Analyses The Situations Of These Working Carers In Nordic, Liberal And East Asian Welfare Systems. Highlighting What Can Be Learned From Individual Experiences, The Book Analyses The Changing Welfare And Labour Market Policies Which Shape The Lives Of Working Carers In Finland, Sweden, Australia, England, Japan And Taiwan.--publisher's Website. Introduction -- Reconciling Work And Care: An International Analysis / Teppo Kröger And Sue Yeandle -- The Emergence Of Policy Supporting Working Carers: Developments In Six Countries / Sue Yeandle, Teppo Kröger Et Al. -- Part One: Working Carers Of Older People -- Family Rediscovered? Working Carers Of Older People In Finland And Sweden / Outi Jolanki, Marta Szebehely And Kaisa Kauppinen -- Working Carers Of Older People: Steps Toward Securing Adequate Support In Australia And England? / Sue Yeandle And Bettina Cass -- Struggling For Recognition: Working Carers Of Older People In Japan And Taiwan / Frank T.y. Wang, Masaya Shimmei, Yoshiko Yamada And Machiko Osawa -- Part Two: Working Parent-carers Of Disabled Children -- Parent-carers Of Disabled Children In Finland And Sweden: Socially Excluded By A Labour Of Love / Sonja Miettinen, Kristina Engwall And Antti Teittinen -- Reconciling Work And Care For Parent-carers Of Disabled Children In Australia And England: Uncertain Progress ~ Sue Yeandle And Kylie Valentine -- Parent-carers In Taiwan And Japan: Lifelong Caring Responsibilities Within A Familistic Welfare System / Yueh-ching Chou, Toshiko Nakano, Heng-hao Chang And Li-fang Liang -- Part Three: Working Partner-carers -- Reconciling Partner-care And Paid Work In Finland And Sweden: Challenges And Coping Strategies / Anu Leinonen And Ann-britt Sand -- 'in Sickness And In Health' And Beyond: Reconciling Work And Care For A Partner In Australia And England / Gary Fry, Cathy Thomson And Trish Hill -- Partner-care In The East Asian System: Combining Paid Work And Caring In Taiwan And Japan / Mei-chun Liu And Machiko Osawa -- Conclusions: Reconciling Work And Care For Older Parents, Disabled Children And Partners: Convergent Or Separate Paths In Three Welfare Systems? / Sue Yeandle And Teppo Kröger. Edited By Teppo Kröger And Sue Yeandle. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Kröger, Teppo, editor; Yeandle, Susan, editor

Teppo Kröger; Susan Yeandle

Teppo Kröger; Sue Yeandle

Sue Yeandle, Teppo Kröger

Teppo Kroger

Bristol University Press

Random House

MyiLibrary

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Place of publication not identified, 2014

United States, United States of America

Bristol, 2013

2013-04-30

1, 2014

1, 2013

As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and care has previously focused mostly on childcare. Combining paid work and family care widens the debate, bringing into discussion the experiences of those providing support to their partners, older relatives and disabled or seriously ill children. The book analyses the situations of these working carers in Nordic, liberal and East Asian welfare systems. Highlighting what can be learned from individual experiences, the book analyses the changing welfare and labour market policies which shape the lives of working carers in Finland, Sweden, Australia, England, Japan and Taiwan.|As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and care has previously focused mostly on childcare. Combining paid work and family care widens the debate, bringing into discussion the experiences of those providing support to their partners, older relatives and disabled or seriously ill children. The book analyses the situations of these working carers in Nordic, liberal and East Asian welfare systems. Highlighting what can be learned from individual experiences, the book analyses the changing welfare and labour market policies which shape the lives of working carers in Finland, Sweden, Australia, England, Japan and Taiwan.

As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people. At the same time women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, making combining caring and working a critical issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. This book widens the international debate, previously focused primarily on childcare, to explore the experiences of people of working age who support their partners, older relatives or a child with a disability or serious illness. The focus is on the situations of working carers in different welfare systems: Nordic (Finland, Sweden), liberal democratic (Australia, England) and East Asian (Japan, Taiwan). The book opens with two chapters which delineate the main features of the demographic, labour market and care challenges facing each of the six countries considered. It then presents in nine comparative chapters comparative analysis of the demand for care, the policy context in which family care is provided by people of working age and the personal and familial impact of doing so. These chapters each explore evidence from two countries, drawing on both existing datasets and new empirical material, highlighting what can be learned from individual experiences, considering the direction of policy change and the influences upon it, and summarising key outcomes for working carers. The editors’ concluding chapter considers convergence and differentiation in work - care reconciliation policy and practice, noting the influence of both common challenges and cultural preferences

As populations around the world age, increasing efforts are required from families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people. Furthermore, both women and men are expected to work later into life. Taken together, these two facts have made the relationship between work and care a burning issue for social and employment policy as well as for those working toward economic sustainability. Emphasizing the lessons that can be learned from individual experiences, this book widens current debates on these topics, bringing the experiences of individuals who support older, disabled, or chronically ill partners, relatives, or children to the discussion table

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Highlighting what can be learned from individual experiences, the book analyses the changing welfare and labour market policies which shape the lives of working carers in Finland, Sweden, Australia, England, Japan and Taiwan
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pt. 1. Working carers of older people -- pt. 2. Working parent-carers of disabled children -- pt. 3. Working partner-carers
Includes bibliographical references and index

Addressing growing debates on population ageing and increasing participation of women in the labour market, this title analyses the welfare and labour market policies that affect working carers

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