Who cares for the carers?

Who cares for the carers? The district nurse perspective.

BACKGROUND Community care of elderly and disabled people is increasing. Primary care teams are expected to provide support to the informal carers essential for its success. OBJECTIVE To explore district nurse (DN) views about roles of the primary care team and what is needed for support of informal carers. METHOD A qualitative analysis of open-ended questions contained in a larger postal qu...

Who Cares for Children?

My search for answers began in Birmingham in 1932 with the scientific humanity of Leonard Parsons; it found its main direction in James Spence's Newcastle where, for fifteen of my twenty-seven years there I crossed almost daily the frontier between home and hospital to make some 3,000 visits to every kind of family in every circumstance of life. Then clinical and academic colleagues brought the...

Who cares for the children?

The authors report findings from a national study comparing congregationbased child care programs with other private and public programs. They found that 25% of child care is being provided by congregations, and that congregations are significantly more likely to be serving middle and upper-middle class children who pay flat rate fees, not low income children whose care is subsidized by governm...

Who cares?

Who Cares for Social Image?∗

Even though the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval has important implications both for crowding out of intrinsic motivation through incentives and for producer choices, little is known about this interaction empirically. We present a laboratory experiment that provides evidence of a relevant interaction effect in the context of ethical consumption. We elicit a ...