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Costs and Benefits of Caregiving Caregiving and Health Care Reform Creating Better Conditions for Care
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Work/Life: A Healthy Balance? How does women’s unpaid caregiving affect their health and well-being, family life, sense of empowerment and livelihood? The Healthy Balance Research Program (HBRP) is a five-year project that aims to foster a "healthy balance" between women’s health, family life and earning a living. Led by the Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health and the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women and funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the project will also investigate the relationships between caregiving and ethnicity, culture, location and age. As a first step, a background paper was commissioned from Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong of York University and Carleton University, respectively. In "Thinking It Through: Women, Work and Caring in the New Millennium" (2001), the authors develop guidelines to help researchers and policy makers grapple with the complex issues of women’s paid and unpaid health care work. (An abridged version of this paper appears on page 15.) "Research Gaps and Recommendations" (2002) represents the synthesis of the findings of a second HBRP study. The full study produced a bibliography of caregiving research and lists of survey instruments. (The searchable database will soon be available on the internet.) Based on gaps identified in the literature, the authors concluded that a gender-based and "multidisciplinary approach to caregiving that acknowledges the subjective components of health and balance, and the positive, reciprocal and interconnected aspects of the caring relationship can provide an important context" for future research on caregiving. For the full reports contact: |
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