Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Reconciling Paid Work and Informal Caregiving Among Older Adults: Implications for Work Interference With Family
Originally published 2023-10-06 · Innovation in Aging
Oxford University Press · DOI 10.1093/geroni/igad115 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about care-sensitive scheduling for older employees; the original evidence concerns 610 employed informal caregivers in the New Zealand Health, Work and Retirement study.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
Can work arrangements fit the responsibilities of someone caring across generations?
This reading brings preferred work status, informal care and the differing roles of flexible arrangements into the collaboration pathway. The secondary analysis of older-worker caregiving data offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
610 employed informal caregivers in the New Zealand Health, Work and Retirement study
Age / stage: Adults aged 55-70
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess work-status preferences and types of flexible arrangements?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about why only some flexibility arrangements moderated work-family interference?
- What would need to be checked before adopting care-sensitive scheduling for older employees?
Keep the limits in view
Observational data and selective significant moderation cannot show that every flexibility option reduces care conflict; this is older-adult caregiving evidence.
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Shanika Yoshini Koreshi; Fiona Alpass (2023). Reconciling Paid Work and Informal Caregiving Among Older Adults: Implications for Work Interference With Family Innovation in Aging. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad115
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