Care in Families: Why it matters

Look after a family member or friends for at 35hrs per week
1. who needs support because of illness, age or disability
2. Carers Allowance as finacial support
Take on a varitey of tasks, ranging form household duties to more iminate personal care
1. Parker and Lawton (1994), indentifes key charaticis of carers role
  1. Personal services
  2. Physical labour
  3. Gives medicaiton
  4. Provides company
Case Study - Ann and Angus (Parkinsons)
Rewards and dificulties
Family structure
1. Carers other family Partner/children
Often hidden
Cares equal Opportunities act 2004
1. carers rights to an assessment of their needs
2. PLaces duty of local authoires to inform caers know support entiltied to
Complication factors
1. duration and frequency
  1. Some task difficulty to quantify
  2. Vary of conditions (some weeks better that others)
2. Labeling and Identity
  1. Reluctance to change identy
3. Interdependence
  1. May support each other ( Angus helping Zoe with Homework)
4. Networks
  1. Who else helps other family mamber
Goverement interest in carers
1. without carers cost of care would be unaffordable

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