Synopsis

Care is needed at all stages of life. This unit makes care in the family its focus because the overwhelming majority of care, including health care, is supplied in families, much of it in private, much of it unnoticed and unremarked upon. The meaning of the term (informal carer) and the word (care) itself are explored.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Learning outcomes
1 Caring: a family affair
2.1 When is someone an informal carer?
2.2 Introducing the Durrants
2.3 What is an informal carer?
2.3.1 A definition of an informal carer
2.4 Defining terms
2.4.1 Interdependence
2.4.2 Duration and frequency
2.4.3 abelling
2.4.4 Networks
1.5 Young carers
1.5.1 Interdependence
1.5.2 Duration and frequency
1.5.3 Labelling
1.5.4 Networks
1.6 Informal carers: summing up
1.7 Key points
3.1 What do we mean by the word ‘care’?
3.2 Care labels
3.2.1 Words and images
3.2.1 Ever-changing labels
3.3 Care: a contested word
3.3.1 Care: a cautious definition
Next steps
References
Acknowledgements

 

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