Changes in Caring Roles and Employment in Mid-Life: Findings from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH), July 2007
This detailed report examines the changing roles of carers, their health and employment status and health service use. Based on the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH) the report specifically compares women who took up caring between surveys 3 and 4, those who stopped caring between surveys and those who did not have caring roles.
Table of contents
- Summary of findings
Chapter 1: General introduction- Chapter 2: Caring transitions from Survey 3 to Survey 4
- Chapter 3: Employment status transitions from Survey 3 to Survey 4
- Chapter 4: The relationship between caring and employment transitions
- Chapter 5: Factors associated with caring and employment transitions
- Chapter 6: Summary and conclusion
- Appendix 1: The Australian longitudinal study on women's health
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July 2007
Prepared by Dr Janneke Berecki, Dr Jayne Lucke, Mr Richard Hockey, Professor Annette Dobson
Inquiries Dr Jayne Lucke, Senior Research Fellow Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health School of Population Health, University of Queensland Email: j.lucke@sph.uq.edu.au Ph: +61 7 3365 5359
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