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	Time: 1 hours Level: Intermediate

	Introduction Introduction Resource Arrangements for care and support which people manage for themselves or have organised for them privately or informally tell us something about the shifting borders between funded and non-funded care,...

	1 Arrangements for care and support 1 Arrangements for care and support Resource In this audio unit, Helen Robinson interviews five different, but not untypical, people who have set up arrangements for care and support, which suit themselves and others. All the arrangements involve...

	2 Audio clip 1: Diane Mallett 2 Audio clip 1: Diane Mallett Resource About seven or eight years before the interview, Diane and her husband Roger arranged for his parents and brother to move next door. Roger's mother had become seriously ill with Parkinson's disease, and...

	3 Audio clip 2: John Avery 3 Audio clip 2: John Avery Resource John Avery, a single parent of a teenage son and a daughter, lived on a council estate on the outskirts of Sheffield. He had been unemployed since the business he jointly ran went bankrupt. At the time...

	4 Audio clip 3: Enid Francis 4 Audio clip 3: Enid Francis Resource Enid Francis lived in a modern residential area on the outskirts of Derby. She shared a house with her husband, Wally, and two grown-up sons, Mark and John. Her husband had had to give up work eighteen...

	5 Audio clip 4: Sarah Fletcher 5 Audio clip 4: Sarah Fletcher Resource At the time of the interview, Sarah Fletcher was 23 and disabled. She had just finished her degree in Social Policy at Loughborough University, and was taking a Masters' degree in European Studies, part...

	6 Audio clip 5: Alex Zinga 6 Audio clip 5: Alex Zinga Resource At the time of the interview, Alex Zinga had recently turned 60. She lived on her own in a small terraced house in Sheffield. Of her immediate family only one sister survived, with whom she says she didn't...

	7 Comment on the audio clips: Benefits and payments 7.1 Payments received Resource Diane Mallett said she didn't get any payment, though she used to get Invalid Care Allowance (ICA) when her mother-in-law was alive. Her brother-in-law, Paul, only got the lower level of Disablility Living... 7.2 What people do with the money? Resource Diane and John didn't get any money. 7.3 Other kinds of help Resource Diane said that Paul and Stanley helped her with dog minding, gardening, shopping and other jobs around the house. Sometimes they bought her presents.

	8 Comment on the audio clips: Care relationships 8.1 Feelings about care relationships Resource Diane couldn't imagine being paid for what she did. She thought that, if she was paid, she would, ‘have felt obligated to do it’. This way it felt like her choice. ‘I wanted to make those choices freely.’... 8.2 Summary Resource Enid and Sarah mentioned relatives and friends, but the others sounded as if they were managing on their own, or within their immediate family unit. Care work can be an isolating experience. The hours...

	References and Acknowledgements References Resource Acknowledgements Resource