Women's Caregiving Careers and Retirement Financial Insecurity

Orel, Nancy A.; Landry-Meyer, Laura; Spence, Maria

doi:10.1002/j.2161-0029.2007.tb00029.x

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“…Younger female caregivers encounter multiple demands as mothers providing care to their children, while some may have to attend to demands in their employment. Particularly for female caregivers with younger children, support for child care could also be useful to meet the needs of these family caregivers (Orel, Landry-Meyer, & Spence, 2007;Stoller & Pugliesi, 1989).…”

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Effect of Financial Costs on Caregiving Burden of Family Caregivers of Older Adults

Lai

2012

Sage Open

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This study examined the effects of perceived financial costs on caregiving burden experienced by family caregivers. The target population was family caregivers for older adults who were 65 years of age and older in Calgary, Alberta. Telephone interviews were conducted using a structured questionnaire, with a random sample of 340 family caregivers. The financial costs associated with family caregiving were a significant factor in caregiving burden, both for the male and female caregivers, even when controlled for most of the demographic characteristics of the caregivers, and the demographics, health, and caregiving needs of the care receivers. While caregiving is creating burden and financial consequences for family caregivers, the effects of financial costs should not be understood only in financial terms. Policies and programs to alleviate the financial burden and to provide social and financial support for these family caregivers are equally important for both family caregivers and their care receivers.

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Effect of Financial Costs on Caregiving Burden of Family Caregivers of Older Adults

Lai

2012

Sage Open

128

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“…For the female caregivers (but not the male caregivers), a higher level of perceived financial and material support was linked to a lower level of caregiver burden. Due to financial disadvantages that many female caregivers face when compared with male caregivers (orel, Landry-Meyer, & Spence, 2007), women could be more financially challenged when attempting to cover the extra costs associated with providing care. As such, female caregivers may view financial and material support as a more important type of support than male caregivers.…”

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The Impact of Perceived Adequacy of Social Support on Caregiving Burden of Family Caregivers

Lai

Thomson

2011

Families in Society

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Ways to Work® is a unique Community Development Financial Institution that provides small, short-term, low-interest loans to working poor families with challenging credit histories. Its national network of loan offices are hosted within family serving member agencies of the Alliance for Children and Families. Loans help individuals remain in or move forward in their job, with the vast majority of loans aiding in purchase of modestly priced used vehicles.

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“…Being a carer substantially affects one's ability to make financial provision for retirement and old age. Women are more likely than men to experience older-age poverty, which has been attributed to their greater likelihood to have engaged in homemaker roles, including childcare and elder care (Orel et al 2007;Ekerdt and Hackney 2002). While women today are more likely to be engaged in paid employment than in the past, they are less likely than men to have access to adequate employer pension schemes that will alleviate financial hardship in old age (Gough 2001).…”

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Relational Vulnerability: The Legal Status of Cohabiting Carers

Gordon-Bouvier

2019

Fem Leg Stud

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In this article, I examine the legal position of those who perform caregiving work within the context of a cohabiting relationship through a novel relational vulnerability lens. I argue that the state, through privatising and devaluing caregiving labour, situates carers within an unequal and imbalanced relational framework, exposing them economic, emotional, and spatial harms.Unlike universal vulnerability, which is inherent and unavoidable, relational vulnerability can be avoided and reduced if the state were to acknowledge that humans are embodied and relational rather than self-sufficient and rational. Law's treatment of cohabiting carers reflects the state's broader tendency to value economic self-sufficiency, while confining caregiving to the private family. I argue that the state has a duty to respond directly to relational vulnerability and should aim to make cohabiting carers resilient. Resilience must involve the provision of material resources but should also have a normative commitment to achieving autonomy and equality for those marginalised by law and state policies.

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Women's Caregiving Careers and Retirement Financial Insecurity

Cited by 8 publications

References 37 publications

Effect of Financial Costs on Caregiving Burden of Family Caregivers of Older Adults

Effect of Financial Costs on Caregiving Burden of Family Caregivers of Older Adults

The Impact of Perceived Adequacy of Social Support on Caregiving Burden of Family Caregivers

Relational Vulnerability: The Legal Status of Cohabiting Carers

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