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Living longer: caring in later working life: examining the interplay between caring and working in later life in the UK
- Author:
- OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Place of publication:
- London
As the UK population gets older, an increasing number of workers are providing care towards the end of their working life for family members. One in four older female workers, and one in eight older male workers, have caring responsibilities. In this article, we look further at the differences between men and women who work and care, and how who is being cared for drives the number of hours a carer provides and their ability to work. Nearly three in five carers in England and Wales are aged 50 years and over, and one in five people aged 50 to 69 years are informal carers – this is the most common age group for having caring responsibilities. A substantial proportion of older workers already balance work with caring responsibilities, particularly women: almost one in four (24%) female workers care, compared with just over one in eight (13%) male workers. There is also still a societal expectation for women, rather than men, to take on caregiving roles. Most of the care that men provide is to their spouse or parents, whereas women are more likely to provide care to a broader range of people including non-relatives. Overall, parents are the most common recipient of care by those of older working ages (29% of informal carers provide care to parents). People caring for parents are more likely to be in work than people caring for any other type of person. (Edited publisher abstract)
Eldercare and employed caregivers: a public/private responsibility?
- Authors:
- KOERIN Beverly B., HARRIGAN Marcia P., SECRET Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 51(1/2), 2008, pp.143-161.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Some 20% of the US population is estimated to provide care to a family member over the age of 18, the majority to older people. Most work full or part time, nearly two-thirds have to make work-related adjustments in order to provide care, and there has been relatively little support from legislation and public policy until recently. This paper examines the problems facing employed carers of older family members; identifies current private and public policies on carer needs, presents a process model for creating family-friendly workplaces, and identifies social work roles that support family caring. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers
- Authors:
- BULLOCK Karen, CRAWFORD Sybil, TENNSTEDT Sharon
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 48(2), April 2003, pp.150-162.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and informal caregiving responsibilities, the authors used data from a community sample of 119 African American elder-caregiver dyads. This article examines the nature of caregiving relationships and extent to which caregivers' employment statuses affect the hours of care provided. The authors concluded that employed caregivers do not provide significantly less care than do unemployed caregivers, elderly people with employed caregivers are no more likely than those with unemployed caregivers to use formal services, and unemployed caregivers may remain unemployed partly because of caregiving responsibilities.
The employment consequences of caring for older people
- Author:
- PHILLIPS Judith
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 2(3), May 1994, pp.143-152.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes and discusses an exploratory study which highlights the difficulties faced by employees attempting to balance work with caring for an older adult.
Caring, the community?
- Author:
- BERRY-LOUND Dorothy
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Management, 1(7), Autumn 1993, pp.28-29.
By the end of the century the impact on employees in the workplace of caring for the elderly is likely to equal the pressures and problems presently linked to childcare. American companies are developing eldercare policies, will UK employers rise to the challenge?
Providing informal care next to paid work: explaining care-giving gratification, burden and stress among older workers
- Authors:
- GRUNWALD Olga, DAMMAN Marleen, HENKENS Kene
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 41(10), 2021, pp.2280-2298.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
With an increasing retirement age, more older adults are combining employment with informal care-giving responsibilities. However, little is known about how older workers experience care-giving activities next to their paid jobs. This study aims to fill this gap by examining how the work situation (i.e. working hours, occupational status and perceived access to human resources practices) is associated with feelings of gratification, burden and stress in care-giving. Using data from the NIDI Pension Panel Survey, we study care-giving experiences – in other words, the extent to which care-giving activities are gratifying, burdensome or stressful – of 1,651 Dutch older workers (age 60–65) who provide care at least once per week. Multivariate analyses reveal that the work situation plays an explanatory role next to socio-demographic factors and indicators of the care-giving situation. Working care-givers who feel they have access to phased retirement and organisational health support experience care-giving as relatively less burdensome and stressful. Moreover, those with access to phased retirement experience relatively higher levels of gratification in care-giving. Our findings suggest that the availability of organisational support relates to lower levels of care-giving burden and stress, and to some extent to higher levels of gratification. Organisations thus play an important role in facilitating the combination of work and care-giving obligations in a context of longer working lives. (Edited publisher abstract)
The sandwich generation: older women balancing work and care
- Authors:
- BEN-GALIM Dalia, SILIM Amna
- Publisher:
- Institute for Public Policy Research
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 43
- Place of publication:
- London
Balancing care responsibilities and work is becoming increasingly difficult, particularly for older women. A ‘sandwich generation’ is emerging, whose members are caught between providing care for both grandchildren and ageing parents, often while continuing to earn and pursue their career. This report provides an overview of the trends in work and caregiving that are affectung older women's lives. While focused on their position and experiences in the workplace, and the influence that the economic crisis has had on their lives, the report also examines the inequalities that underlie the way that older women are – or rather, are not – represented in politics, business and the media. The authors consider how more progressive policies on parental leave and flexible working, and innovative reciprocal time-banking schemes, could enable older women (and men) to balance a longer and a more fulfilling working life with better-supported caring responsibilities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Older workers with caregiving responsibilities: a Canadian perspective on corporate caring
- Author:
- SCHARLACH Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing International, 37(1), March 2012, pp.39-56.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
This article provides an overview of current research on older workers with caregiving responsibilities from a Canadian perspective, with a particular focus on those aged 55 and over. The first section presents relevant demographic and policy trends. The second section outlines impacts of these trends on caregiving employees, communities, employers, businesses and governments. The third section identifies potential policy responses and program solutions that support the needs of older workers with caregiving responsibilities. The article concludes with a recommended plan of action to move forward in addressing the emerging challenges associated with this issue.
Effect of caring for an older person on women's lifetime participation in work
- Author:
- JASMINE MASUY Amandine
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 29(5), July 2009, pp.745-763.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This paper examines the relationship between informal care and ending paid work for working women of three age groups (up to 30, 31–49 and 50 or more years) in 1995 in Belgium. It explores the effect of being a carer for older adults on the probability of ceasing to work. Most particularly, it focuses on the effect of the care intensity in the different age groups. The analyses use data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). A sample of 24,592 working women living in 11 European countries was followed from 1995 to 2001. Multivariate analyses for the entire sample show that the simple fact of caring or not did not influence the probability of ceasing work, but that providing light care had a negative effect, suggesting the presence of a respite effect. As for the effects specific to each age group, caring did not have any effect for women aged 31 to 49 years, but for the other two age groups, women who provided light care were less likely to cease work than those not caring for an older person. In contrast, providing heavy care increased the probability of ceasing work, but only for those aged 50 or more years. The findings suggest that studies of and policies related to informal care and its consequences should give more attention to age group differences.
Assistance received by employed caregivers and their care recipients: who helps care recipients when caregivers work full time?
- Authors:
- SCHARLACH Andrew E., GUSTAVSON Kristen, DAL SANTO Teresa S.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 47(6), December 2007, pp.752-762.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This study examined the association among caregiver labour force participation, employees' caregiving activities, and the amount and quality of care received by care recipients. Telephone interviews were conducted with 478 adults who were employed full time and 705 nonemployed adults who provided care to a family member or friend aged 50 or older, identified through random sampling of California households. Care recipient impairment and service problems; the amounts and types of assistance received from caregivers, family and friends, and paid providers; and caregiver utilization of support services were all assessed. Care recipients of caregivers employed full time were less likely to receive large amounts of care from their caregivers, more likely to receive personal care from paid care providers, more likely to use community services, and more likely to experience service problems than were care recipients of nonemployed caregivers. Employed caregivers were more likely to use caregiver support services than were nonemployed caregivers. Accommodation to caregiver full-time employment involves selective supplementation by caregivers and their care recipients, reflecting increased reliance on formal support services as well as increased vulnerability to service problems and unmet care recipient needs. These findings suggest the need for greater attention to the well-being of disabled elders whose caregivers are employed full time.