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- Title
Informal care, employment and quality of life: Barriers and facilitators to combining informal care and work participation for healthcare professionals.
- Authors
Heitink, Eveline; Heerkens, Yvonne; Engels, Josephine
- Abstract
In The Netherlands, one out of six Dutch employees has informal care tasks; in the hospital and healthcare sector, this ratio is one out of four workers. Informal carers experience problems with the combination of work and informal care. In particular, they have problems with the burden of responsibility, a lack of independence and their health. These problems can reveal themselves in a variety of mental and physical symptoms that can result in absenteeism, reduction or loss of (work) participation, reduction of income, and even social isolation.
- Publication
Work (Reading, Mass.), 2017, Vol 58, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
1875-9270
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.3233/WOR-172607