Care Pressure Arising from Caring for Elderly Parents among Single Girls in Ilam

Caring for Aging Parents

Does informal care from children to their elderly parents substitute for formal care in Europe?

This paper analyzes the impact of informal care by adult children on the use of long-term care among the elderly in Europe and the effect of the level of the parent's disability on this relationship. We focus on two types of formal home care that are the most likely to interact with informal care: paid domestic help and nursing care. Using recent European data emerging from the Survey on Health...

Informal and formal care among single-living elderly in Europe.

The aims of this study were to analyse (1) whether informal care, provided by children or grandchildren to their elderly parents, and formal care are substitutes or complements, and (2) whether this relationship differs across Europe. The analyses were based on cross-sectional data from the newly developed SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe) database. We found (1) that in...

A Vocational Calling: Exploring a caring technology in elderly care

In this article we explore the relationship of care of a group of health care workers in elderly care, through their descriptions of themselves and their work. We have an interest in how relationships of care may be explored and characterized in and across disparate vocational settings. This is a critical response to policy discourses of citizenship that are currently emerging for reemphasis in...