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Time: 8 hours
Level: Introductory
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 Introduction Resource- Care is needed at all stages of life. This unit makes care in the family its focus because the overwhelming majority of care, including health care, is supplied in families, much of it in private, much...
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- Caring: a family affair Resource
- Mummy would love me, daddy would too,
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| | 1 Who are informal carers?
- When is someone an informal carer? Resource
- Section 1 explores what is meant by the term ‘informal carer’. ‘Informal carer’ is an official term that is used when the private world of the family meets the public world of formalised care provision....
- 1.1 Introducing the Durrants Resource
- We will be focusing on a single case study, about Arthur and Lynne Durrant. This enables us to explore some broad questions about care, carers and caring which might be quite boring and divorced from real...
- 1.2 What is an informal carer? Resource
- Lynne is a daughter and a sister. Is she also an informal carer?
- 1.3 Defining terms Resource
- Why are we spending so much time and energy on asking whether Lynne is a carer? Does it matter? It would matter if Lynne wanted to apply for financial or practical support as a carer. It matters to budget...
- 1.4 Young carers Resource
- Who is left out of the definition of informal carer? At first sight, taking account of the four complications noted above means that no one is left out. The definition can embrace anyone who is taking...
- 1.5 Informal carers: summing up Resource
- Section 1 has explored what is meant by the term ‘informal carer’. I have developed a definition of an informal carer and examined it in the context of two rather unusual family situations, the Durrants’...
- 1.6 Key points Resource
- In the key points box below we sum up the main ideas introduced so far. You can use it now to check that you have grasped the main ideas, and later the key points will remind you of the content.
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- 2.1 What do we mean by the word ‘care’? Resource
- ‘Care’ is a loaded word. Care is not just about tender loving feelings, it is about work as well. Being seen as someone who needs care says something about a person – their competence, their position in...
- 2.2 Care labels Resource
- Why is it important to explore the way language is used? Two reasons were suggested in Section 1. Definitions are important so that services and support can be targeted to where they are most needed. And...
- 2.3 Care: a contested word Resource
- You have seen that the words used to label people who are seen as needing care can stigmatise them. By picking them out as unlike ‘normal’ people, people who do not need care, they can feel belittled,...
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