Werk en mantelzorg

Groenou, M.I. Broese Van; Schakel, Saskia; Tolkacheva, Natalia

doi:10.5117/2015.031.004.393

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“…From a societal perspective, this is undesirable because continued participation in both paid work and informal care are crucial. Previous studies have shown that workplace support, such as understanding from supervisors and colleagues, is associated with fewer depressive symptoms in working informal caregivers (Bijnsdorp et al, 2022;Broese van Groenou et al, 2015;Earle & Heymann, 2011).…”

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Maintaining a Sustainable Work–Life Balance

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“…This adds to their more adverse working conditions and to the burden of menopause [ 27 ]. Long-term informal care for people with chronic disease or impairment is associated with increased risk for psychological fatigue [ 28 ].…”

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“But at a certain point, the lights literally went out”: A qualitative study exploring midlife women’s experiences of health, wellbeing, and functioning in relation to paid work

Verburgh,

Verdonk,

Muntinga

et al. 2024

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BACKGROUND: In the Netherlands, the fact that midlife women constitute a considerable segment of the working population is relatively new. Generally paid work contributes to midlife women’s wellbeing, but they also report health challenges, such as work-related fatigue and the menopause. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to understand how midlife women themselves perceive their health, wellbeing, and functioning in relation to paid work. METHODS: In this exploratory qualitative study, 28 women participated in five ethnically homogeneous focus group discussions (FGDs). De FGDs were recorded, transcribed verbatim, and thematically analyzed using MAXQDA. RESULTS: We identified exhaustion as central to our analysis. During midlife, exhaustion seems to occur once a certain limit has been reached, both physically and mentally, with women feeling to have reached the end of their rope. Besides obvious physiological challenges, we identified two major themes in which we discuss challenges both in paid work and private life: (1) work environment and working conditions, and (2) burdens in private life. Participants took various measures to manage and try to reduce exhaustion, including finding a new job or negotiating different job tasks, and reducing work hours. CONCLUSION: This study indicates that the extent to which women experience exhaustion is associated with challenges in both paid work and private life. The underlying processes do not seem to reflect individual problems, but reflect a complex set of factors at the structural level. Nevertheless, women take several individual measures to reduce their exhaustion, including reducing their participation in paid work.

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“…Tey often rely on informal care from family, friends or neighbors [1,2]. While often intrinsically fulflling, providing informal care combined with other daily life activities, such as a paid job, can be burdening for caregivers' (mental) health and wellbeing [3,4]. Adequate support for informal caregivers (henceforth: caregivers) can decrease these detrimental efects, and simultaneously optimize care for the older adults they take care of.…”

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Views of Older Adults on Using Support to Prevent Overload in Informal Caregivers: Results of a Story Completion Study

Vos

Bruin

Pees

et al. 2023

Health & Social Care in the Community

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Older care recipients living at home increasingly rely on support from informal caregivers. As informal caregivers often combine these caregiving tasks with other tasks, such as paid work, they are at risk of becoming overloaded. To decrease informal caregiver burden, different forms of support are available that also affect older care recipients’ lives, such as respite care, technology, or home care. The aim of this qualitative study was to obtain more insight into the perceptions, potential concerns and preferences of older informal care recipients about the use of support to relieve informal caregivers. We performed a story completion writing task among 23 informal care recipients aged 65 years or older, using hypothetical situations to let them reflect on different caregiver relief support options. The task was followed-up by a story-mediated interview. We used thematic analysis to inductively analyze story completions and interviews. We found that older informal care recipients were often willing to use support to relieve their caregivers, to ensure their wellbeing. However, they were also concerned about how the use of such support may conflict with their interests, preferences and values (e.g. respect for their autonomy, privacy, having a trusting relationship with a caretaker, paying attention to human aspects in care). Older adults were most hesitant to use adult day care facilities and technological support options. While these areas of tensions cannot always be completely resolved, it is important to jointly identify and discuss these, and work towards solutions to balance the respective interests, values and needs of older adults and caregivers. Health and social care professionals and older adults’ personal networks may help in overcoming hesitation to use support.

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Werk en mantelzorg

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Maintaining a Sustainable Work–Life Balance

Maintaining a Sustainable Work–Life Balance

“But at a certain point, the lights literally went out”: A qualitative study exploring midlife women’s experiences of health, wellbeing, and functioning in relation to paid work

Views of Older Adults on Using Support to Prevent Overload in Informal Caregivers: Results of a Story Completion Study

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