New policies for caring family members in European welfare states

• Autores: Birgit Pfau-Effinger
• Localización: Cuadernos de relaciones laborales, ISSN-e 1988-2572, ISSN 1131-8635, Vol. 32, Nº 1, 2014, págs. 33-48
• Idioma: inglés
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  • español

    Desde 1990, los Estados de bienestar de Europa occidental han desarrollado servicios públicos y derechos sociales para los ciudadanos adultos con necesidades de cuidados. También han comenzado a apoyar a los miembros de la familia en sus labores de cuidados. El cuidado informal y no retribuido por (mayoritariamente mujeres) cónyuges o hijos adultos a las personas mayores con vulnerabilidad se ha transformado en formas de cuidado familiar retribuidas por programas estatales como �dinero-por-cuidados� o por municipalidades, los cuales están relacionados de algún modo con los derechos laborales. Como consecuencia, hasta cierto punto los modos en que los Estados de bienestar construyen la relación entre los miembros de la familia también han cambiado.

    Hasta ahora, la investigación sobre políticas del Estado de bienestar en el cuidado de adultos por los miembros de las familias es relativamente escasa. Este artículo introduce una tipología de �regímenes de cuidado familiar� en el campo del cuidado a ciudadanos mayores, la cual se puede utilizar como marco teórico para el análisis transnacional de las instituciones del Estado de bienestar que están recomponiendo el trabajo de los miembros de la familia que cuidan y su relación con los beneficiarios de los cuidados en la familia.

    También se analiza hasta qué punto los diferentes regímenes de cuidado familiar se relacionan con las tensiones que se presentan

  • English

    Since the 1990s, the West European welfare states have extended public social services and social rights for senior citizens in need of care. They have also started to support family members more in their caring role.

    The unpaid, informal care done by (mostly female) spouses or adult children of the frail elderly people has been transformed into forms of family care that are paid for by state programs such as �cash-for-care� or by municipalities, and which connected to some degree also with employment rights. As a consequence, also the ways in which welfare states construct the relationship between family members has changed to some degree.

    So far, there is relatively little research about welfare state policies towards senior care by family members.

    This paper introduces a typology of �family care regimes� in the field of care for senior citizens, which can be used as a theoretical framework for cross-national analyzes of welfare state institutions which are framing the work situation of caring family members and their relationship with the care recipients in family care. It also is analyzed how far the different types of the family care regime are connected with tensions

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