Understanding the impact of eldercare on working women’s lives:a pilot study

1. Responsibility for elder care is now a major issue for families, especially women. It often has an adverse impact on their economic and social well-being. Combining employment with elder care presents particular challenges. 2. Our survey suggests that around half the University's staff have elder care responsibilities, and more expect to take on elder care in the future. 3. There is a considerable additional burden of work for elder carers, which can be very stressful: • these staff are very conscientious about maintaining high levels of performance at work • most of them undertake elder care after working hours and one day per weekend, on top of caring for their own household and children/grandchildren • elder care is more unpredictable than childcare, typically including more and longer crises • although external support services (e.g. from local authorities) may exist, staff are often unaware of these, and elders frequently refuse to accept them. 4. Elder care impacts negatively on women's career development, including by limiting their ability to study for qualifications, undertake research, or seek promotion. This is particularly stressful for women academics now required to do a doctorate, some of whom have had to suspend studies. 5. Flexibility in the workplace, and information about available support (both within the University and from external services) emerge as key issues in enabling women to manage these challenges. 6. The role of line managers in helping women achieve flexibility is crucial. Whilst some appear to be helpful regarding elder care issues, others are unaware or unsupportive. There is currently no specific attention to elder care issues in managers’ training or induction. 7. The University Counselling Service is viewed by line managers as an essential resource for staff involved in elder care, especially following bereavement. However, it is not completely confidential, as line managers' approval is needed for faculties/services to pay for the service. 8. Few staff involved in elder care are aware of University family-friendly policies that may apply to them. Some who had searched for these on the intranet had been unable to find relevant information. 9. HR staff are not aware of the extent of elder care as an issue for staff at the University, and it is not monitored. HR receive requests for dependents' leave for childcare but not for elder care

More on F versus t tests for unit roots when there is no trend

Rodrigues and Tremayne (2004) interpret a problematic size result in a Monte Carlo study reported in Elder and Kennedy (2001) as arising from Elder and Kennedy's use of an inappropriate testing equation. In expositing their result, Rodrigues and Tremayne inadvertently lead readers to believe that the Elder and Kennedy conclusion is in error. We clarify the Rodrigues and Tremayne contribution, putting the validity of the Elder and Kennedy result in proper perspective and underlining the important role played by the starting value in Monte Carlo analyses.

Iowa Department on Aging Performance Plan, FY2013

Agency Performance Plan, Iowa Department of Elder Affair

Skyrim as a Representation of the American Dominant Culture

This thesis aims to give pictures of the American values in an American cultural product, Bethesda\u27s Elder Scroll V: Skyrim. I will use ideology as the concept to show that cultural products contain ideologies or values of the dominant group. The study shows that in the games, traditional American values serve as the standard values of the American dominant group. Furthermore, I show that American values in the video game are the same, although some values are shifting. In conclusion, I find out that Elder Scroll V: Skyrim has all of the American traditional values. The medieval setting of the game somehow shifts some values like material wealth since bloodline status is appreciated. Thus, Elder Scroll V: Skyrim does represent the American society and how it should be

A non-Hopfian almost convex group

In this article we prove that an "isometric multiple HNN-extension" of a group satisfying the falsification by fellow traveler property is almost convex. As a corollary, Wise's example of a CAT(0) non-Hopfian group is Almost convex.Comment: Appeared in 2004. I am putting all my past papers on arxi

No Peace in the House: Witchcraft Accusations as an Old Woman\u27s Problem in Ghana

In Ghana, older women may be marginalized, abused, and even killed as witches. Media accounts imply this is common practice, mainly through stories of “witches camps” to which the accused may flee. Anthropological literature on aging and on witchcraft, however, suggests that this focus exaggerates and misinterprets the problem. This article presents a literature review and exploratory data on elder advocacy and rights intervention on behalf of accused witches in Ghana to help answer the question of how witchcraft accusations become an older woman’s problem in the context of aging and elder advocacy work. The ineffectiveness of rights based and formal intervention through sponsored education programs and development projects is contrasted with the benefit of informal conflict resolution by family and staff of advocacy organizations. Data are based on ethnographic research in Ghana on a rights based program addressing witchcraft accusations by a national elder advocacy organization and on rights based intervention in three witches camps

Social Justice Week Kicks off at RWU

Programming to focus on myriad issues of inequality from race to healthcare and elder justice

Social Justice Week Kicks off at RWU

Programming to focus on myriad issues of inequality from race to healthcare and elder justice

Private financing of elder care in Sweden. Arguments for and against

The idea that there is a need to increase the share of private financing of the costs of elder care is expressed by several actors attempting to influence the direction of social policy Sweden these days. This idea fundamentally challenges established ways of financing and organising delivery of elder care services in Sweden. Underlying proposals for increasing private financing is the claim that the future scope of public elder care provision must contract, both vertically and horizontally. Underlying this claim is the assumption that both the quantity and quality of services demanded will increase, while the supply of public funds cannot. Vertical contraction aims to draw new funds from users willing to pay more to get higher quality services. Horizontal contraction aims to reduce the scope of public sector’s responsibility in service provision. This paper outlines recent developments in private provision of elder care services and examines arguments and actors for increasing private financing. Although the proposals have been put forward by influential actors, opposition to increasing private financing has been expressed, and support for solidaristic funding of elder care remains strong. Accordingly, we also consider these dissenting arguments and actors. Our purpose is to set out and evaluate the arguments, evidence and interests behind the proposals, and the likely outcomes of their implementation.Elder care; Private financing; Social policy; Sweden;