New models of replacement care for working carers

该项目旨在调查替代护理安排，这些安排将支持残疾、慢性病或年长亲属的不同非正式照顾者群体参与当代澳大利亚的有偿工作。使用混合方法、实地试验和侧重于时间同步的创新概念方法，它将产生关于可持续替代护理模式的特征和有效性的关键新知识，使照顾者能够进入或增加有偿工作，并保持工作/护理平衡。重大好处包括改进老年、残疾和护理者服务模式和政策，以加强妇女的劳动力参与，提高国家生产率，并改善护理者福祉。

This project aims to investigate the replacement care arrangements that will support different groups of informal carers of a person with a disability, chronic illness or older relative to participate in paid work in contemporary Australia. Using mixed methods, field trials, and an innovative conceptual approach focused on time synchronicity, it will generate critical new knowledge about the characteristics and effectiveness of sustainable replacement care models that enable carers to enter or increase paid work and maintain work/care balance. Significant benefits include improving aged, disability and carer service models and policies to enhance women’s workforce participation, boost national productivity, and improve carer wellbeing.