Sustainable Care conference 2021 journal highlights and free articles
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International Journal of Care and Caring
This multidisciplinary journal publishes high quality contributions on care, caring and carers from all regions of the world. The International Journal of Care and Caring has a broad focus, covering care and caring for people of any age who have long-term conditions, disabilities or frailties, or who are seriously ill or near the end of life.
We have created a collection of free articles which explore the conference’s themes. This collection includes articles from our recent special issue ‘The changing character of care work: New risks and responses’. The Sustainable Care collection is free to read until 30 April.
Highlights include:
Inequalities in care: global, local and transnational dynamics in an age of migration
The legal protection of women migrant domestic workers from the Philippines and Sri Lanka: an intersectional rights-based approach
Sophie Henderson
Work, care and wellbeing: new solutions, ongoing challenges
Claiming rights: the future for carers and the need for a radical imagining
Kathryn Knight and Laura Davy
Technology in care: opportunities and obstacles in place-based care contexts
Responses to vulnerability: care ethics and the technologisation of eldercare
Antti Hämäläinen
Sustainable care at home: understanding the ‘care mix’
Integrating work and home when patients are dying: a mixed-methods study of hospice care workers and workâfamily conflict in the US
Cindy L. Cain and Jack Lam
Care workforce wellbeing
‘Personalised risk’ in paid care work and the impacts of ‘gig economy’ care platforms and other market-based organisations
Fiona Macdonald
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If you enjoyed these articles you might also be interested in our free sample issue which explores home care for older adults, care practices by mothers with disabilities, dementia service provision and much more.
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