Fathers whose own dads were highly nurturing tend to have healthier levels of competition and be more emotionally open.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Caregiving
Displaying 41 - 60 of 83 articles
The Biden administration wants workers in child care and pre-K programs to earn at least $15 per hour.
To keep our health care providers healthy, we need to help them sleep.
Older adults who are caregivers to someone with a health condition or disability report severe and unrelenting levels of stress and isolation during COVID-19 due to pandemic-related protocols.
Some parents of kids with disabilities are doubling as specialized teachers, occupational therapists, speech therapists and psychologists during the pandemic.
While enrolments for men over the age of 25 increased, numbers fell for women in this age group. A likely reason for the difference is caring responsibilities, which increased during the pandemic.
The pandemic is bringing up tough new questions as parents and grandparents develop advance care plans. Here’s how to start the conversation.
New statistics show that people with dementia have been particularly vulnerable during the pandemic.
School food programs should be key elements of governments’ COVID-19 responses. In planning these, the relationships that are part of providing food matter.
Changes to working life created by COVID-19 give employers an opportunity to embrace a caregiver-friendly work culture, supporting the millions of Canadians who juggle employment and informal caring.
COVID-19 has spotlighted structural injustice inherent in child care in Canada. Organizational leaders have a responsibility to work together, with child care stakeholders, to redress this injustice.
Adult daughters who are the primary care providers for their children and aging parents are facing added stress due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A new study has found US mums have experienced a marked drop in their works hours during the pandemic. But this is not the case for dads.
For US parents, the health, economic and social crisis the COVID-19 pandemic brought about is compounded by the difficult if not impossible task of working, caring for and educating kids.
The United States has 53 million caregivers, according to the latest estimate. And COVID-19 makes what they do much harder.
South Africa’s national lockdown will amplify the needs of children with special education needs and disability.
Now that the pandemic has made migrant workers visible in Canada, as well as the true value of the work they do, it’s time to dramatically improve their working conditions.
A scholar of the American safety net explains how, through her own brother, she’s getting a personal window into what it means to face COVID-19 as a worker in the gig economy.
Some older adults are struggling to practise social distancing during the global pandemic, even though they’re at high risk. Here’s how to help them.
Men who work in female-dominated fields tend to get more prestige and higher wages.
Top contributors
-
Assistant Professor, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University
-
Research fellow, Stellenbosch University
-
Professor and Co-Director, Research on Aging, Policies and Practice, University of Alberta
-
Regents and Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M University
-
PhD Candidate in Aging, Health, and Well-Being/Director of Programs, University of Waterloo
-
Doctoral Candidate, Aging, Health and Well-being, University of Waterloo
-
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
-
Professor of Public Administration and Policy, American University School of Public Affairs
-
Professor, Faculty of Science, McMaster University
-
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
-
Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Person Centred Interventions for Older Adults with Multimorbidity and their Caregivers, School of Nursing, McMaster University
-
Associate Professor of Marketing, Washington University in St. Louis
-
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Northeastern University
-
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Health and Policy, Chapman University
