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Time for care: exploring time use by carers of older people
- Authors:
- BOWES Alison, DAWSON Alison, ASHWORTH Rosalie
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 40(8), 2020, pp.1735-1758.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The paper focuses on temporal aspects of informal caring for older people. Limitations of large-scale surveys in capturing such data are noted and time-use methodology, despite its own limitations, is proposed as a promising alternative. Adopting a critical perspective on time that includes carers’ own conceptualisations, we report the findings of a qualitative study of carers’ time use. Sixty-two interviews with carers, male/female, co-resident/not co-resident, employed/not employed, and located across Great Britain were conducted. Analysis considered people's own diverse and ambiguous views of their care activities. Carers’ accounts of their time revealed non-linear experiences and a sense of being permanently on call. Interviewees often travelled distances to engage in support activities with or for older people. Changes over time were pervasive, increasing or reducing care requirements. Unanticipated events could precipitate radical changes in time use. Managing time, exercising temporal agency, was particularly apparent in accounts of care, employment, other family responsibilities and choices about friendship. Measurement of carers’ time use which draws on the conceptual foundation of carers’ own perspectives on time may provide more effective quantitative understanding of the temporal aspects of caring. It should not pre-define time, must grasp a variety of tasks, take account of intermittent activity, incorporate the 24–7 experience of many carers and demonstrate how caring time interacts with other time. (Publisher abstract)
Family support and community care: a study of South Asian older people
- Authors:
- BOWES Alison, DAR Naira, SRIVASTAVA Archana
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Central Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 97p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Explores the views of older South Asian people about their support needs, in the context of a review of existing provision. Gaps between the needs of older people and their carers and the kind of support available are identified, and ways of bridging these gaps are suggested.