How Social Policies Affect Grandparent Care Work

2021 ◽  
pp. 114-123
Author(s):  
Madonna Harrington Meyer ◽  
Amra Kandic
Keyword(s):  
Care Work ◽  
Social Policies

scholarly journals How Marital Status Shapes Grandparenting Children With Disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 242-242
Author(s):  
Madonna Harrington Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Levels Of Care ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
Financial Impacts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract How does marital status shape grandparent care work when grandchildren have disabilities? Based on 50 in-depth interviews with grandparents who provide various types of care for grandchildren with disabilities, we find that marital status shapes care work in three distinct ways: (1) Many who are married describe both grandparents working as a team to provide vital care; (2) Some who are married describe spouses, primarily grandfathers, who are either unable or unwilling to provide care; and (3) Many who are not married, primarily grandmothers, describe providing relatively high levels of care and support despite relatively low resources. While nearly all report a great deal of joy and satisfaction with their care work, those who are single, have greater care responsibilities, and fewer resources are more likely to report adverse social, emotional, physical, and financial impacts. More robust social policies could alleviate the impact of marital status on grandparent care work.

Intergroup Threat and Outgroup Attitudes

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 311-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Brambilla ◽  
David A. Butz
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Intergroup Attitudes ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Intergroup Threat ◽  
Economic Threat ◽  
The Impact ◽  
General Climate

Two studies examined the impact of macrolevel symbolic threat on intergroup attitudes. In Study 1 (N = 71), participants exposed to a macrosymbolic threat (vs. nonsymbolic threat and neutral topic) reported less support toward social policies concerning gay men, an outgroup whose stereotypes implies a threat to values, but not toward welfare recipients, a social group whose stereotypes do not imply a threat to values. Study 2 (N = 78) showed that, whereas macrolevel symbolic threat led to less favorable attitudes toward gay men, macroeconomic threat led to less favorable attitudes toward Asians, an outgroup whose stereotypes imply an economic threat. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for understanding the role of a general climate of threat in shaping intergroup attitudes.

Review of Tough Times and Tender Moments in Child Care Work.

1967 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 468-468
Author(s):  
NICHOLAS HOBBS
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Child Care Work

Dilemmas at a Primary Health Care Center: a baseline study for Computer-Supported Cooperative Health Care Work

1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (03) ◽  
pp. 204-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Timpka ◽  
J. M. Nyce
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Work Activity ◽  
Health Care Center ◽  
Health Care Work ◽  
Primary Health

Abstract:For the development of computer-supported cooperative health care work this study investigated, based upon activity theory, daily dilemmas encountered by the members of interprofessional primary health care work groups. The entire staff at four Swedish primary health care centers were surveyed, 199 personal interviews being conducted by the Critical Incident Technique. Medical dilemmas were mainly reported by general practitioners and nurses, organizational dilemmas by laboratory staff, nurses’ aides, and secretaries, and dilemmas in the patient-provider relation by nurses, nurses’ aides, and secretaries. Organizational and communication dilemmas reported by nurses, nurses’ aides, and secretaries often had their cause outside the control of the individual professional. These dilemmas were often “caused” by other group members (general practitioners or nurses), e.g., by not keeping appointment times or by not sharing information with patients. The implication for computer-supported cooperative health care work is that computer support should be planned on two levels. Collective work activity as a whole should benefit from individual clinical decision support for general practitioners and nurses. However, since most patient communication and organizational problems occurred at group level, group process support is required in these areas.

On the strategy for industrial development of Russia

2017 ◽  
pp. 45-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Osmakov ◽  
A. Kalinin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Territorial Planning

The article considers the problems of industrial policy and, accordingly, the industrial development strategy from the standpoint of the challenges facing the industry, the conditions for the adoption of strategic decisions and possible answers - the key directions of state activities. The main principles and directions are analyzed: investment, foreign trade, technological policies, certain aspects of territorial planning, state corporate and social policies. Proposals on the prospective goal-setting and possible results of industrial policy have been formulated.

Care Work on the Front Lines

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (820) ◽  
pp. 326-328
Author(s):  
Mary F. E. Ebeling
Keyword(s):  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Outpatient Care ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Essential Work ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
The Us

An ethnographic study of the work of nurse practitioners at an outpatient care facility shows how these medical professionals must endlessly multitask to fill gaps in the US social safety net. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new focus on the essential work of nurses and the lack of resources with which they often contend is especially timely.

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