GRT 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Long-Term Care, Social Capital, Equal Pay For Equal Work
15 Nov 2016
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Review informal and formal supports for older people. This is the help and assistance that people give to one another which can be in the form of childcare, sharing a home with your adult children, or other things. Informal support: unpaid help from family members, friends, neighbours, or other community members. Formal support: paid support from professional caregivers like doctors, nurses, social workers, and homecare workers. Combination: people turn to formal systems after informal systems no longer meet their needs. More than 2. 7 million canadians aged 45 and over (1 in 5 in this age group) said they provided some type of care or assistance to a family member or friend. Women provide the majority of informal support either to their spouses or their family members, but because they tend to live longer than men, they are more likely to be older care recipients.
