Throughout the pandemic, community carers have risked their own health and well-being, but have struggled for even basic support and equipment.
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The government proposes to fix social care and rescue the NHS in one go. The levy it proposes risks only scratching the surface
A series of studies shows people taking care of loved ones equate effort with love, making them feel guilty for using a product that reduces that effort.
New studies highlight the difficulties cancer patients have when discussing their illness with family and medical teams.
Children use play to express themselves and process their emotions. Here’s how parents can make the most of play time together.
Fathers whose own dads were highly nurturing tend to have healthier levels of competition and be more emotionally open.
The Biden administration wants workers in child care and pre-K programs to earn at least $15 per hour.
To keep our health care providers healthy, we need to help them sleep.
Older adults who are caregivers to someone with a health condition or disability report severe and unrelenting levels of stress and isolation during COVID-19 due to pandemic-related protocols.
Some parents of kids with disabilities are doubling as specialized teachers, occupational therapists, speech therapists and psychologists during the pandemic.
While enrolments for men over the age of 25 increased, numbers fell for women in this age group. A likely reason for the difference is caring responsibilities, which increased during the pandemic.
The pandemic is bringing up tough new questions as parents and grandparents develop advance care plans. Here’s how to start the conversation.
New statistics show that people with dementia have been particularly vulnerable during the pandemic.
School food programs should be key elements of governments’ COVID-19 responses. In planning these, the relationships that are part of providing food matter.
Changes to working life created by COVID-19 give employers an opportunity to embrace a caregiver-friendly work culture, supporting the millions of Canadians who juggle employment and informal caring.
COVID-19 has spotlighted structural injustice inherent in child care in Canada. Organizational leaders have a responsibility to work together, with child care stakeholders, to redress this injustice.
Adult daughters who are the primary care providers for their children and aging parents are facing added stress due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A new study has found US mums have experienced a marked drop in their works hours during the pandemic. But this is not the case for dads.
For US parents, the health, economic and social crisis the COVID-19 pandemic brought about is compounded by the difficult if not impossible task of working, caring for and educating kids.
The United States has 53 million caregivers, according to the latest estimate. And COVID-19 makes what they do much harder.
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Doctoral Candidate, Aging, Health and Well-being, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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SARChI: Human Capabilities, Social Cohesion and the Family, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, Faculty of Science, McMaster University
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Associate Professor, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University
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Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
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Research fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Gerontologist, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Sociology, University of Lincoln
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Person Centred Interventions for Older Adults with Multimorbidity and their Caregivers, School of Nursing, McMaster University
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Professor and Co-Director, Research on Aging, Policies and Practice, University of Alberta
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Professor of Public Administration and Policy, American University School of Public Affairs
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne