Health Policy Monitor, Family Hospice Sabbatical

In 2000 the idea of a Family Hospice Sabbatical was generated to further unburden the public health care sector facilitating family care for dying relatives or severely ill children at home. Austrian employees would have three options: uncompensated reduction of work time, change of work time or unc...

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Link(s) zu Dokument(en):IHS Publikation
Hauptverfasser: Hofmarcher, Maria M., Röhrling, Gerald, Riedel, Monika
Format: Discussion/ Working Paper NonPeerReviewed
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2003
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:In 2000 the idea of a Family Hospice Sabbatical was generated to further unburden the public health care sector facilitating family care for dying relatives or severely ill children at home. Austrian employees would have three options: uncompensated reduction of work time, change of work time or uncompensated sabbatical. The care giver can take care of spouses, partners, parents, grant parents, children, step children, foster kids, siblings and step parents.