Traditionally, the majority of the population of Ireland have lived in rural areas outside of large towns and cities. However, this has changed over time, and in 2016 just over 37% of the population lived in an ‘aggregate rural area’…
This paper is a supplement to Family Carer’s Ireland’s briefing paper Balancing Work and Care: International Challenges and Irish Perspectives. It provides relevant data from the 2011 and 2016 Irish Censuses to build a picture of working carers in Ireland.…
This briefing paper examines the challenges related to the reconciliation of work and care, both for carers and for employers, in Ireland, situating the discussion within an international context. Such reconciliation is, given demographic trends, a pressing social and economic…
The article examines provisions governing reciprocal maintenance obligations in Ireland both from a historical perspective and in comparison with contemporary provisions in the EU28. Ireland is in a minority among EU states in lacking any provision in law for the…
This survey analyses the scope and intensity of informal care for the elderly residing in their homes in Slovenia and their determinants: the residing municipality of the care recipient, geographical distance between the informal carer and the care recipient, to…
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…
