Care work includes all tasks directly involving the care of others. The majority of care work is provided without any expectation of immediate pecuniary...

late 1960s psychiatric social work succeeded to the current emphasis on community-based care, psychiatric social work focused beyond the medical model's...

Bolton where she grew up, and spent time in care as a child, as her mother was a heroin addict. She later worked as an escort to fund her arts career. Willan...

or foster homes to provide care, housing, and schooling. Professional caregivers work within the context of center-based care (including crèches, daycare...

household, as well as care of children, the elderly, the sick, and the disabled. The term "unpaid care work" is primarily defined as care work for family members...

professions all constitute health care. The term includes work done in providing primary care, secondary care, tertiary care, and public health. Access to...

and 'palliative care'. In the UK palliative care services offer inpatient care, home care, day care and outpatient services, and work in close partnership...

hand, tend to perform traditionally female tasks like food shopping, care work, cleaning, and creative jobs like graphic design and writing tasks. There...

work can be work that is done at home to sustain a family, like child care work, or actual habitual daily labour that is not monetarily rewarded, like...

work songs have a particular history and center on resistance and self-care. Work songs helped to pass down information about the lived experience of enslaved...

caregiver, carer or support worker is a paid or unpaid person who helps an individual with activities of daily living. Caregivers who are members of a care recipient's...

Care Bears are multi-colored bears, painted in 1981 by artist Elena Kucharik to be used on greeting cards from American Greetings. They were turned into...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and colloquially as Obamacare, is a landmark U...

grassroots women's network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work, in the home and outside. It was started in 1972 by Mariarosa Dalla Costa...

research focuses on topics that have been neglected in the field, such as care work, intimate partner violence, or on economic theories which could be improved...

specialized healthcare practitioner trained in critical care and cardio-pulmonary medicine in order to work therapeutically with people who have acute critical...

others. They usually work together in intensive care units (ICUs) within a hospital. Patients are admitted to the intensive care unit if their medical...

and care work, by sex, age and location". Unpaid care and domestic work includes cooking and cleaning, fetching water and firewood or taking care of children...

nutrition, law, and ethics. Typically, students of Health and Social Care will have a work placement alongside their academic studies; such a placement may...

The Care Inspectorate (formally known as Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland) (Scottish Gaelic: Coimisean a’ Chùraim) is a scrutiny body which...

Social care in Scotland encompasses social work; care home services in the community for adults, children and young people; and services for young children...

and guidelines to improve the quality of care and to meet patient expectations. It carries out some of its work through arms-length bodies (ALBs), including...

writing and publishing free computer programs or care work.[citation needed] The term 'shadow work' was coined by Ivan Illich, in his 1980 article and...

Home care (also referred to as domiciliary care, social care, or in-home care) is supportive care provided in the home. Care may be provided by licensed...

blue-collar workers perform manual labor or work in skilled trades; pink-collar workers work in care, health care, social work, or teaching; and grey-collar jobs...

The Canadian Dental Care Plan is a dental insurance program funded by the Government of Canada to provide dentistry services to uninsured Canadians that...

Preconception Care Work Group and the Select Panel on Preconception Care) (April 2006). "Recommendations to improve preconception health and health care--United...

worker is someone working in the care-oriented career field or in fields historically considered to be women's work. This may include jobs in the beauty...

person medical care, whilst managing the complexity, uncertainty and risk associated with the continuous care they provide. GPs work at the heart of...

living, adult daycare, long-term care, nursing homes (often called residential care), hospice care, and home care. Elderly care emphasizes the social and personal...