CAREWELL Awareness-Raising Videos
Based on the experiences of family carers who took part in our research, we produced a video entitled ‘A Day in the Life of a Working Family Carer‘, to demonstrate what a typical work day might look like for a family carer who balances work alongside caregiving responsibilities. Using direct quotes from family carers, we hope that this video helps to raise awareness of the multiple and often unpredictable demands facing working family carers in their day and illustrate the realities of juggling work and care. The video also provides some useful steps that organisations can take to help family carers to combine work with their caregiving responsibilities.
Drawing on the research findings from the CAREWELL project, we produced a video to raise awareness of ‘The Role of the Line Manager in Supporting Family Carers in the Workplace and to highlight how line managers can provide effective support to family carers. The video explains who we mean when we talk about ‘family carers’, the challenges they experience when balancing work with care, and how they can be best supported by their line manager. Four scenarios are presented to illustrate the different ways family carers have been supported in the workplace to combine work and care.
Episode Five CAREWELL Conversations released.
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In our fifth episode “The challenges and benefits of supporting family carers in paid employment – A business perspective” Ms. Kara McGann, IBEC’s Head of Social Policy is joined by Dr. Linda Dowling-Hetherington Director – Assurance of Learning, UCD School of Business. As a strong advocate of gender balance, diversity and inclusion within the Irish business community, Kara discusses the importance of retaining and supporting family carers within paid employment and businesses through policies and supports that can help achieve this goal . IBEC’s “Better lives, better business” policy campaign aims to make Ireland a better place to work for all sections of society including family carers.
Please tune in to CAREWELL Conversations, a podcast on the importance of supporting those balancing paid work with family caring, produced by the #CAREWELL_Project.
The CAREWELL Project: Promoting health and self-care among family carers in the workplace 