CareVisions: Re-envisioning a care-centred society in Ireland beyond COVID-19. Short easy-read report.
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2023-12
Authors
Edwards, Claire
Daly, Felicity
Kelleher, Carol
Loughnane , Cliona
O’Riordan, Jacqui
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Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century, University College Cork
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Care is something that is very important in everyone's lives. It can mean lots of different things. Care can be love and support that we give and receive in close relationships - with family, friends, neighbours and other people in our communities. Care also means services that we might receive to support us in everyday life, for example, healthcare or disability services. Care can also be a type of work. For example, some people work as care workers, looking after and supporting children, or older people. Care can be a hard word because while it should be good, care can be associate with bad experiences. For example, disabled and older people have sometimes experienced violence and abuse from people who were supposed to be caring for them. During COVID-19, there were lots of problems with care. Older people and disabled people were more likely to get sick with and die from COVID-19. Many people did not get good care. People working in care also had to work in hard conditions. The CareVisions research project wanted to see what lessons we could learn about care from COVID-19. We wanted to know about people's experiences of care and to imagine what good care could look like in the future.
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Short easy-read report
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Care , COVID-19 , Ireland
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Edwards, C., Daly, F., Kelleher, C., Loughnane, C. and O’Riordan, J. (2023) 'CareVisions: Re-envisioning a care-centred society in Ireland beyond COVID-19. Short easy-read report'. Cork: Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21), University College Cork.
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