Immigrant care workers are having to work into retirement age to make ends meet. The Canadian government must do more to support them.
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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 in England have faced impossible pressures during lockdown. The government needs to ensure better pay and working conditions.
Nursing has long been seen as a vocation, not a skill. This impacts nursing staff and patients both.
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?
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.
Social care has long been the healthcare system’s poor cousin. Will the UK government’s new plans to reform the system succeed where others have not?
Vacancy rates in the care worker sector have now risen above pre-pandemic levels.
School food programs should be key elements of governments’ COVID-19 responses. In planning these, the relationships that are part of providing food matter.
Burnout can affect the type of care the patients receive.
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.
Working as a professional carer is a stressful and high-pressure job. Making sure carers have the right training and support is crucial.
Top contributors
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Professor of Health Studies, University of Westminster
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Professor of Business Ethics, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor in Employment Relations, Auckland University of Technology
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor in Psychology, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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PhD Researcher in Dementia Care, King's College London
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of Food, Nutrition and Health, University of British Columbia
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PhD candidate, Industrial Relations and Human Resources, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University
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NIHR SSCR Research Fellow, University of Bristol
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Professor of Sociology, University of Sheffield
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PhD researcher in Anthropology, UCL
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Lecturer in Work and Organisation, University of Sussex
