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The Paid Care Research Network welcomes researchers interested in issues relating to the provision
and use of paid care to share and communicate information, resources and ideas.
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Research areas
Developing and communicating knowledge to improve the provision of paid care services.
Researchers within the APCR Network conduct research in the following areas:
Identifying what is distinctive about paid care services
- Assumptions about 'care' within a service delivery framework
- Underlying normative and empirical debates
- Ways in which the relational, emotional and moral aspects of care are enabled or not
- Private agreements
- Government services
- Corporate ownership
- Charitable and not-for-profit services
Paid carers’ experiences of the work they do
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Organisational structures that support the provision of different aspects of care (eg physical, health, emotional, relational)
The link between paid and unpaid care
- Needs of unpaid / family carers
- Role of policy in defining the spheres of paid / unpaid care
- Placing the care relationship in a broader social context
