Something's Got to Give : : Balancing Work, Childcare and Eldercare / / Linda Duxbury, Chris Higgins.
A perfect storm of factors are brewing that will redefine dependent care in the coming decades. Delayed marriage and parenthood, longer life-spans, lower birthrates, and the health policy shift to informal caregiving have drastically increased the number of employees whose mental and physical health...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 15 figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Chapter One. The Perfect Storm: Caregiving in Canada and Other Western Economies
- Chapter Two. Profiling Canadian Caregivers: Who Are They? What Do They Do? Why Do They Do It?
- Chapter Three. Too Much to Do in Too Little Time: Balancing Caregiving, Employment, and (Perhaps) Childcare
- Chapter Four. And So? The Impact of Caregiving on Employees Who Provide Care
- Chapter Five. And So? The Impact of Caregiving on the Organizational “Bottom Line”
- Chapter Six. Surviving (Even Thriving on) the “Rollercoaster Ride from Hell”: Coping with Caregiver Strain
- Chapter Seven. I’ll Get By with a Little Help from My Friends: Coping with Caregiver Strain
- Chapter Eight. A Call to Action
- Appendix: Source of Measures Referred to in the Book
- References
- Index