num_pages: 204
description: Focuses on carers who are also in the paid work force and want both to remain in paid work and to continue to fulfil their caring responsibilities. The text examines how workplaces, government policy and community attitudes can be changed to foster a better and more supportive environment for workers who are caring. The text point to the need to change workplace policies and organizational cultures to confer legitimacy on the felt obligation and responsibility to care for older relatives.
language: English
title: Women, Work and Care of the Elderly
titlecomplete: Women, Work and Care of the Elderly
publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd