Identify two factors which influence who takes on an informal caring role.?

Question

Why do people become carers? Discuss this question, identifying at least two factors which influence who takes on an informal caring role.

Answer 1

Your son is your son til he takes him a wife; your daughter's your daughter the rest of her life.

Answer 2

Although, this sounds like an essay questions for school I will answer anyways! I am a actually a professional care giving in a nursing home. One of the reason I went into my job is because there are people that need my help. I want to do the best I can to ensure that I provide the person dignity and to possibly make them happier where they are. Another reason is, working in a nursing home while I'm in school pays the bills better than what McDonald's does and it also gives me insight on nursing homes, a variety of people, and gives me skills that not many people have. As for an informal caring role I'm assuming that you are talking about taking care of someone that isn't your child? I know there is a exteremly high possiblity that I will be one myself. My grandmother is 90 and my uncle has MS. Both of this means there is a possiblity that there will be a time when that they can no longer care for themselves. If this happens I will not EVER place them in a nursing home since I do possess the skills to help them. I couldn't live with myself if i put them in a nursing home, one because I know even the best nursing homes do not have enough staff to provide the care that I would want for my family and another thing I think that they would be more comfortable at home.

Answer 3

I became one because I had a disabled mother! When she was ill and needed help we all did our share without thinking of ourselves as carers! With age her condition gradually deteriorated to the point she needed care and I was the one available through circumstances best able to do it! Eventually I moved in with her and the nice government even gave me £35 a week to do the 24/7 job I'd have done anyway. I didn't realise how much money I was saving them! After she died it seemed a good idea to make it my job! As a professional carer I've met those who were in a position similar to mine but without the full support I had. I grew up with it so accepting the role was easy and enjoyable but others have it forced upon them because of unforeseeable accident or illness. A wife or husband may give up a career and take on the role full time! Some will do it through sense of duty (they think it's expected of them and in some cultures IT IS!) Most will do it because they want to and are the ones least likely to seek help if or when it's needed!

Answer 4

Availability and capability. You have to first of all have the time to do it. You have to have the time to bother. If you are totally strung out with a work schedule, you would not be a good candidate. Secondly, capability. You have to love helping people over the rough spots. You have to love being there for them when everybody else walks out. In other words, you have to care. So - availability and capability when it means caring - I would say these are definitely two factors which influence who takes on an informal caring role.

Answer 5

1. Culture...what is the practice in the family's culture? Many cultures assume caregiving responsibilities for aging parents.
2. Being an only child...more likely to become caregivers for aging parents for obvious reasons, as compared to children of larger families where the responsibility may be divided among many
3. I'm guessing here...but being female, not having formal employment, living in an accessible home, financial security, being in good health

Answer 6

I pointed out as a feminist and agnostic while i became into 19, have not replaced that view in 30 years. yet I additionally became into very quiet and introverted till my 30's, when I have been given extra useful, did no longer care what maximum persons concept anymore, and as a replace of being a quiet feminist, I grew to grow to be an outspoken feminist. I grew up earlier abortion became into criminal, earlier the pill became into critically disbursed, while there have been women's jobs and adult adult males's jobs, and additionally you need to no longer stick to for the different gender's activity. I bear in mind while "in basic terms undesirable human beings have been raped, incest and newborn molestation not often if ever got here approximately, and in basic terms undesirable human beings have been batterers", or so it became into suggested..... i could by no ability decide directly to have lived earlier feminists replaced our society.

Answer 7

My reasons.
He was my Dad and I loved him
I was the only family person who had the experience to care for him
He refused to go into a home to be cared for at first.

Not only was it my duty (as an only child) but my pleasure to be able to give back a lot of love and care that he had given to me when growing up.

Answer 8

why, what do I get at the end? am I doing ur homework 4 u? it sound suspiciously like a "set question"........especially the "discuss...." bit and "identify" bit........
Sorry I cant help u, u naughty cheater!