Our research shows that aged care work is still stigmatised by other health professionals as dirty, difficult and low-status – more than most other jobs.
Recruiting volunteers in social care is no easy fix for the struggles of the sector.
Immigrant women working in the care sector do the essential work many Canadians rely on, but low wages mean many need to work past retirement age.
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Alternative working arrangements like gig platforms might help immigrant workers find temporary work, but many care professionals are still unable to find permanent jobs in their industry.
Care workers are highly trained professionals.
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Ahead of the 2022 budget, the government is investing in male-dominated apprenticeships rather than women-dominated care roles. Has anything really changed in how we value the work of women?
Even before the pandemic, there were over 124,000 care-worker vacancies in the UK.
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Care workers, care recipients, think tanks and parliament itself agree that social care reform is urgently needed. But this plan’s lack of detail and insufficient funding suggest that it a ways off.
New reports suggest over 8 per cent of care worker roles are currently unfilled.
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School food programs should be key elements of governments’ COVID-19 responses. In planning these, the relationships that are part of providing food matter.
Research shows that as burnout increases, empathy decreases.
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With caregivers’ faces covered, infants and young children will miss out on all the visual cues they’d normally get during stages of rapid developmental growth.
Good care is dependent on good care workers.
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