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Profile: Richard Worsley, Director, Carnegie Third Age Programme
- Author:
- WORSLEY Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Equal Opportunities Review, 60, March 1995, pp.23-24.
Outlines the aims of the Carnegie Third Age Programme which is a follow up to the Carnegie Inquiry into the Third Age. One of the key elements is to persuade employers to adopt positive policies in respect of older workers.
Combating age discrimination in employment: education versus legislation
- Authors:
- TAYLOR Philip, WALKER Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Policy Studies, 16(3), Autumn 1995, pp.52-61.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Recent research can inform discussion about the best way to attack age discrimination in employment. The authors compare two main approaches.
Working carers: international perspectives on working and caring for older people
- Editor:
- PHILLIPS Judith
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 169p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Presents different perspectives on working carers who care for older people. The publication aims to reflect on the different stages in the development of this issue by looking first at the British perspective; then Europe and finally looking at developments in North America.
Diversity in organizations: new perspectives for a changing workplace
- Editors:
- CHEMERS Martin M., OSKAMP Stuart, COSTANZO Mark A.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 282p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at changes in the make up of the workforce in the United States due to demographic changes. Looks at the positive contributions that women, people from minority ethnic groups, and older people can make to organisations. In 3 sections: individual reactions to diversity; diversity effects on groups and teams; and organisational perspectives on diversity.
Japan and the United States struggle with who will care for our aging parents when caregivers are employed
- Authors:
- LECHNER Viola M., SASAKI Masahito
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 24(1/2), 1995, pp.97-114.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
With the well documented increases in the number of elderly in the United States and Japan, families are facing growing responsibilities for elders who cannot care for themselves. Many of the traditional caregivers (women) are now employed. These demographic and social changes profoundly affect family life, work organisations, community services, and government. Summarises the magnitude of the problem of managing work and parent care roles in each country; summarises government, workplace, and community responses to solving the family care problems; and analyses country responses from their ideological perspective.
Eldercare and work-role conflict: toward an understanding of gender differences in caregiver burden
- Authors:
- KRAMER Betty J., KIPNIS Stuart
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 35(3), June 1995, pp.340-348.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Investigated gender differences in caregiving tasks, role strains, and resources to account for gender variations in burden among a probability sample of employed, nonspousal caregivers. Females were more likely to assist with care provision tasks, to report work role strains, and to experience higher levels of burden than males. After controlling for known sociodemographic dissimilarities in predicting burden, the effect of gender decreased at each step when caregiver tasks, work role strains, and resources were entered into the regression equation. Results suggest that these differences may partially explain the greater negative impact experienced by nonspousal, female caregivers.
The future of family care for older people
- Editors:
- ALLEN Isobel, PERKINS Elizabeth
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 243p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at what is known about the social and economic factors affecting the future supply of family care for older people, placing this in the context of the future demand for such care. Includes papers on: migration and family care; the labour market and unpaid caring; the financial consequences of caring for an older relative; pensioners' financial resources in the context of community care; housing equity release and inheritance; and integrating the family into a mixed economy of care.
The law and elderly people
- Editors:
- GRIFFITHS Aled, ROBERTS Gwyneth
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 390p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed at people giving advice and providing services to older people. Covers the law relating to: employment; income; accommodation and housing; community and residential care; health care; and family relationships.
Women, the elderly and social policy in Finland and Japan: the muse or the worker bee?
- Editors:
- KOSKIAHO Briita, MAKINEN Paula, PATTINIEMI Maija-Liisa
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 209p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
A collection of papers looking at the role of women in Finnish and Japanese society and how changes in the economy and in social policy have affected them. Issues discussed include: women and the family; changes in women's employment; standard of living and services to the female elderly.
Inlogov informs on the third age
- Editors:
- GRAYSON Lesley, HOBSON Margaret
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham. Institute of Local Government Studies
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 163p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Literature review and commentary on the third age, drawing on material published from the late 1980's on. Includes sections on: trends and issues; attitudes and values; incomes; working life and retirement; housing; health and well being; lifestyles; older women; carers; black elders; and elder abuse.