Family care and social capital -- Informal care in context: an expression of social relationships -- The dynamic experience of caring -- Informal caring and early childhood -- Caring for a family member with a lifelong disability -- Caring for adults with acquired disabilities -- Caring for older people -- Caregiving across the generations -- Recognising and supporting informal care
Summary
Becoming a caregiver is increasingly an inevitable experience for many people and, therefore, a likely life transition. Drawing on research and personal experiences of working with family caregivers, this book examines a range of family caregiving situations from across the life course. It seeks to capture the dynamics of caregiving in a number of common situations: caregiving during infancy, for adults who acquire a disability through accidents or illness, for older people with age-related issues, and caregiving by children and adolescent carers and grandparent carers. In drawing attention to
