Last Updated on November 25, 2013
All over Europe, there are children, teenagers and young adults who take care of an ill or disabled family member. Studies suggest that 1-2 teenagers in every school class are taking on those responsibilities. We call them Young Carers and…
The UK charity Partnership for Children has developed an inspiring school based programme – Zippy’s Friends - to promote the mental health and emotional wellbeing of young children. Starting from the recognition that modern life can be full of challenges…
Sabina is 16 years old and she cares for her mother who lives with a disability. Sabina has to carry out household activities and to provide her mother with practical and emotional help. Sabina does not always have the time…
The first project meeting was hosted by Anziani e Non Solo (ANS) on 27 November 2017 in Carpi (Italy). It gave the opportunity to the partners to review the content of the project, and to make sure they share the…
The relative unavailability of studies specifically addressing the issue of the impact on intimate relationships of Family Carers is worth noting. The majority of studies that have been undertaken often focus exclusively on the impacts of the disability on the…
The purpose of this discussion paper first published in December 2015 is to begin to unpick some of the issues which come to the fore when thinking about the mutuality of care (Williams & Robinson, 2001) that an increasing number…
Having a working definition of what ‘disability’ is, is crucial to any research- along with policy development and service provision- being conducted in the field. There are many such definitions of disability (Iezzoni & Freedman, 2008), many of which lay…
This paper seeks to summarise the situation of publicly funded home care over the period 2008–2016 in the Republic of Ireland. Of particular interest is the overall change to the level of resources being directed to home care in the…
In this paper we explore the interrelationships between family carer identification, family carer prevalence statistics and supports for family carers. We draw on recent quantitative data sources in an attempt to provide an objective analysis of family caring in Ireland…
This document provides a review of literature on the relationship between family carers and home care support workers, in order to gain a deeper understanding of the body of knowledge that already exists in this subject area. Although it adopts…
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