When caring ends: Understanding and supporting informal care trajectories

该项目旨在促进对关爱如何、为何、何时以及为谁而结束的理解，包括影响关爱之前、期间和之后经历的社会文化和关系因素。该项目采用创新的、多方法的社会学方法，并突出照顾者的声音，希望产生关于照顾和照顾的意义和经验的新知识。该项目在汇集领先的研究人员和主要的以职业为中心的组织方面具有重要意义，跨越服务部门，跨越护理关系，生命阶段和环境。预期结果包括服务能力的增强，带来切实的政策和实践效益，从而实现可持续和充实的非正式护理体验。

This project aims to advance understandings of how, why, when, and for whom caring ends, including the socio-cultural and relational factors that shape experiences before, during, and after caring. Using an innovative, multi-method sociological approach, and foregrounding carers’ voices, this project expects to generate new knowledge on the meaning and experience of care and caring. This project is significant in bringing together leading researchers and key carer-focused organisations, spanning service sectors and moving across care relationships, life stages and contexts. Expected outcomes include enhanced service capacity with tangible policy and practice benefits that will enable sustainable and fulfilling informal caring experiences.