Editor's Note: For more on informal caregivers and related issues, see Bridging Troubled Waters: Family Caregivers, Transitions, And Long-Term Care and other articles in the January issue of Health ...

Directly involving the thousands of family members and friends who serve as 'informal carers' for people with dementia in the evaluation of patients' symptoms and behavior could offer improved ...

Informal carers looking after a loved one with arthritis are financially worse off than non-carers to the sum of $388 million, Griffith University research has discovered. That figure is set to ...

People who became carers during Covid-19 by helping family members, friends or neighbors in need experienced a sharp decline in their own mental health, new research from Lancaster University reveals.

In formal caregiving settings such as hospitals, each diagnosis and test brings health care systems more money. These systems bet and win on us being sick to function. The average length of stay in a ...

It’s crucial to support them so they don’t fall into excessive caring which could have long-term negative impacts on their lives. My research uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to explore ...

Despite this, some principles of these conventions have found partial expression in federal and provincial laws. Paid maternity and paternity leave provisions exist and the Punjab pioneered a Domestic ...

Informal carers take care of their loved ones day and night. This asks a lot of them. To be able to keep up with the care, it is important that they can occasionally go away for a few days to relax.