Care work includes all tasks directly involving the care of others. The majority of care work is provided without any expectation of immediate pecuniary...
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late 1960s psychiatric social work succeeded to the current emphasis on community-based care, psychiatric social work focused beyond the medical model's...
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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...
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or foster homes to provide care, housing, and schooling. Professional caregivers work within the context of center-based care (including crèches, daycare...
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Sophie Willan (section Care work)
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...
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professions all constitute health care. The term includes work done in providing primary care, secondary care, tertiary care, and public health. Access to...
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Caregiver (redirect from Care for others)
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...
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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...
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and 'palliative care'. In the UK palliative care services offer inpatient care, home care, day care and outpatient services, and work in close partnership...
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providing care as an AHP, their work may support non-AHP health care roles in providing care, and their work may provide specialty health care that would...
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Gig worker (redirect from Gig work)
hand, tend to perform traditionally female tasks like food shopping, care work, cleaning, and creative jobs like graphic design and writing tasks. There...
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nutrition, law, and ethics. Typically, students of Health and Social Care will have a work placement alongside their academic studies; such a placement may...
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Workforce (redirect from Work Participation Rate)
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...
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Respiratory therapist (redirect from Respiratory care)
specialized healthcare practitioner trained in critical care and cardio-pulmonary medicine in order to work therapeutically with people who have acute critical...
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others. They usually work together in intensive care units (ICUs) within a hospital. Patients are admitted to the intensive care unit if their medical...
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and colloquially as Obamacare, is a landmark U...
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Social care in Scotland encompasses social work; care home services in the community for adults, children and young people; and services for young children...
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The Care Inspectorate (formally known as Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland) (Scottish Gaelic: Coimisean a’ Chùraim) is a scrutiny body which...
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Feminist economics (section Care economy)
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...
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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...
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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...
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helping individuals manage work–family balance in the U.S. include legislation, workplace policies, and the marketization of care work. Family structure (how...
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a house, writing and publishing free computer programs or care work. The term 'shadow work' was coined by Ivan Illich, in his 1980 article and in his...
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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...
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Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home (residential child care community, treatment center, juvenile center...
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Parental care refers to the level of investment provided by the mother and the father to ensure development and survival of their offspring. In most birds...
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Workfare (redirect from Work for welfare)
in workfare as well, particularly related to equal pay and dependent care work. Welfare states can adopt different models related to the main breadwinner:...
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living, adult daycare, long-term care, nursing homes (often called residential care), hospice care, and home care. Elderly care emphasizes the social and personal...
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women were less prestigious (assistant, social carers or child care workers) and the child care work they were attributed to viewed as not (or less)...
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sailors work on all Navy ships, within Medical Treatment Facilities, and serve on the front lines with Marine Corps Units while providing health care to servicemembers...
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