Social care is not just a funding challenge – it’s a workforce challenge, too.
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Dementia care costs are 5 times higher than the official figures suggest when you count the value of unpaid care.
Showing and celebrating that men care – and presenting positive public images of what men do for family – is vital to wider societal wellbeing and health
The extreme levels of poverty endured by economically inactive people (as highlighted in the government’s own data) are a direct result of deliberate political choices to continually erode benefits.
Family caregivers who have stronger support networks and positive communication with loved ones tend to be more resilient.
We must redress the challenges of unpaid domestic work and the mental load on women’s physical, mental and economic health and well-being.
President Biden wants to use his $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan to shore up child and home care. A scholar explains why that kind of care is just as critical as roads and bridges.
Automation could transform our working world. Here’s what we can do to ensure it is a more gender equal one.
Informal caregivers play a vital role in medical tourism yet find themselves unprotected as “shadow workers” in a multi-billion dollar industry.
While disability carers are employed to work part-time hours, they often have long work days with short periods of work interspersed with non-work periods.
The latest Census shows Australians spend between five and 14 hours a week on unpaid domestic work, but it’s women who suffer the most from this.
During our lifetime, we face a series of developmental tasks that are universal to the human condition. The last of these stages comes in our final years, when we face our mortality, reflect back upon…
It is easy to measure the national economic value of primary industry production, of manufacturing, and of the wholesale and retail sectors. But many Australians don’t work in profit-focused enterprises…
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Head of Clinical Services, Dementia Support Australia, & Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Professor, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Technology and Organisation, University of Manchester
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Research Associate, Hawke Research Institute, Adelaide University
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Adjunct Academic teaching health and aged care policy, Flinders University
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Professor of Comparative Employment Systems, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of Sociology, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor in Journalism Studies, University of Stirling
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Assistant Professor of Gerontological Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington
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Researcher, Work of Social Care Research Program, Centre for People, Organisation & Work, RMIT University
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Researcher, Work of Social Care Research Program, Centre for People, Organisation and Work, RMIT University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Lincoln
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Policy Director, Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute and Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Professor of Nursing, University of Leeds