The formal employment of family caregivers: reinforcing the familialisation of long-term care responsibilities?
The formal employment of family caregivers represents a rather uncommon form of organising long-term care but exists in diverse welfare states. Against this background, we examine how family carers experience a formalisation of previously unpaid care by drawing on two Austrian employment programmes...| Link(s) zu Dokument(en): | IHS Publikation |
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| Format: | Article in Academic Journal PeerReviewed |
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Policy Press
2024
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| Zusammenfassung: | The formal employment of family caregivers represents a rather uncommon form of organising long-term care but exists in diverse welfare states. Against this background, we examine how family carers experience a formalisation of previously unpaid care by drawing on two Austrian employment programmes and discuss their larger implications with regard to the (de)familialisation of long-term care responsibilities. Depending on the welfare state context, employment models might either provide freedom of choice with regard to the preferred care arrangement and strengthen a right to care or contribute to the enforcement of family care and thereby reinforce pressures on caregiving relatives. |
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