Informal caregiving, time use and experienced wellbeing

Urwin, Sean; Lau, Yiu-Shing; Grande, Gunn; Sutton, Matt

doi:10.1002/hec.4624

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“…First, while this measure captures self-reported stress on the diary day, stress on the day of data collection may be different from day-to-day time stress. Findings from Urwin et al (2023) suggest that while evaluative well-being may be lower amongst caregivers, this differs significantly from daily average experienced well-being. Second, we note that this measure is a binary indicator of stress.…”

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Unpaid caregiving and stress among older working-age men and women in Sweden

Stanfors

Jacobs

2023

SSM - Population Health

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confidence: 84%

Unpaid caregiving and stress among older working-age men and women in Sweden

Stanfors

Jacobs

2023

SSM - Population Health

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“…This becomes very relevant in the context of caregiving, as the type and duration of certain activities may not be similar to those of non-caregivers (Urwin et al, 2023).…”

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“The life that was mine is now hers”: being an informal caregiver of people with disabilities

Costa,

Novo Junior

2024

Rev. Interinst. Bras. Ter. Ocup.

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Background: Informal caregivers experience a significant overload that leads to changes in their perspectives and quality of life, in addition to impacts on their physical and emotional health. Objective: We aim to describe and analyze the use of time, experienced difficulties, perceived changes and feelings of informal caregivers. Methods: Transcripts of 33 interviews were subjected to thematic content analysis and through them we have obtained four categories: abandonment of occupations and loss of identity; changing perspectives and values; difficulties in accepting the diagnoses; fears about the future. Results: The great dedication to caring for the other implies the abandonment of significant occupations, shows changes in values and life perspectives and points to great concerns about the future. Conclusion: Paradigm shifts are necessary to understand, in fact, how complex it is to become and remain as an informal caregiver of a person with any type of disability or limitation, while considering that the dedication of the caregiver is, for the most part, unconditional.

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“…Freedman, et. al., 2019;Flores, Kieny, and Maurer, 2020;and Urwin et. al., 2023), only a small number of articles that have touched on how experienced wellbeing measures might contribute to cost-benefit analysis.…”

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Experienced wellbeing, income, and measurement of the value of non-market outcomes.

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Public policy inevitably involves choices about which goals to prioritise. The standard economic framework for the ex-ante evaluation of public policy decisions is social cost-benefit analysis. Within this framework, identifying values for key public policy outcomes with no market price is of high importance if resources are to be directed to areas with the highest public benefit. Cost-wellbeing analysis involves using measures of subjective wellbeing – typically an evaluative measure such as life satisfaction – to estimate values for non-market outcomes. While traditional cost-wellbeing analysis is useful in many situations, there are some outcomes where evaluative measures are unable to provide useful information. This thesis focuses instead on the use of experienced wellbeing measures in cost-wellbeing analysis to obtain estimates for non-market outcomes where evaluative measures are not suitable or available.Three key topics are considered. First, the thesis explores the conceptual and practical issues involved in using experienced wellbeing measures in cost-wellbeing analysis. A methodology is developed that addresses a key challenge in the use of experienced wellbeing measures in this context –the relatively weak relationship between income and experienced wellbeing and the key assumptions required for the validity of the proposed method are identified. A core part of this proposed methodology is to treat experienced wellbeing as a determinant of life satisfaction, which then allows the use of the income coefficient on life satisfaction in cost-wellbeing analysis.The second part of the thesis focuses on the impact of income measurement on the relationship between income and life satisfaction. A unique New Zealand dataset containing both self-reported income measures and an employer-reported income measure is used to explore whether differences in how income is measured impacts the estimated relationship between income and life satisfaction. This relationship is fundamental to cost-wellbeing analysis, as it is used to transform the estimated impact of a non-market outcome on life satisfaction into a meaningful dollar value.The final part of the thesis applies the methodology developed earlier to value three different aspects of urban green space: forest cover, semi-natural grassy areas, and proximity to the nearest park. Values for the first and last of these outcomes are available from the existing social cost-benefit analysis literature based on traditional valuation techniques and are used to test the validity of the experienced wellbeing valuation approach. The proposed approach to using experienced wellbeing measures to value non-market outcomes is found to produce plausible values and replicates patterns of relative prices found in the existing literature.The main contributions of the thesis is developing a method for using experienced wellbeing measures to value non-market outcomes for cost-benefit analysis and validating this empirically, as well as testing the sensitivity of non-market valuations based on subjective wellbeing data to income measurement issues. Building on these findings, the thesis also sets out a research agenda for cost-wellbeing analysis relating both to the use of experienced wellbeing measures in this context and to the measurement of income.

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Informal caregiving, time use and experienced wellbeing

Cited by 6 publications

References 56 publications

Unpaid caregiving and stress among older working-age men and women in Sweden

Unpaid caregiving and stress among older working-age men and women in Sweden

“The life that was mine is now hers”: being an informal caregiver of people with disabilities

Experienced wellbeing, income, and measurement of the value of non-market outcomes.

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