Care in Families: Why it matters

Care in Families: Why it matters

1. Look after a family member or friends for at 35hrs per week

   • who needs support because of illness, age or disability
   • Carers Allowance as finacial support

2. Take on a varitey of tasks, ranging form household duties to more iminate personal care

   • Parker and Lawton (1994), indentifes key charaticis of carers role
     • Personal services
     • Physical labour
     • Gives medicaiton
     • Provides company

3. Case Study - Ann and Angus (Parkinsons)

4. Rewards and dificulties

5. Family structure

   • Carers other family Partner/children

6. Often hidden

7. Cares equal Opportunities act 2004

   • carers rights to an assessment of their needs
   • PLaces duty of local authoires to inform caers know support entiltied to

8. Complication factors

   • duration and frequency
     • Some task difficulty to quantify
     • Vary of conditions (some weeks better that others)
   • Labeling and Identity
     • Reluctance to change identy
   • Interdependence
     • May support each other ( Angus helping Zoe with Homework)
   • Networks
     • Who else helps other family mamber

9. Goverement interest in carers

   • without carers cost of care would be unaffordable