Sociaal werkers krijgen in hun dagelijkse werk steeds vaker te maken met mantelzorgers. Die laatsten voelen zich vaak ongezien door beroepskrachten, ziet Yvette Wittenberg. Wat kunnen sociaal werkers doen om de samenwerking met mantelzorgers beter en gelijkwaardiger te laten verlopen? Tijd investeren …

Zorg- en welzijnsorganisaties zoeken naar manieren om de samenwerking met mantelzorgers te verbeteren. Maar hoe denken mantelzorgers over zo’n samenwerking? Docent en onderzoeker Yvette Wittenberg pleit voor meer sensitiviteit bij beroepskrachten en een faciliterende overheid.

This dissertation explores variety in caregivers’ views on sharing care. To provide a better understanding of the wide range of informal care situations, brief stories of caregivers are sketched between the individual chapters of this dissertation. These caregivers participated in the qualitative sub-study …

Informele zorg – de zorg van mensen voor elkaar – vormt het fundament van onze samenleving. Het is van onschatbare waarde voor de miljoenen mensen in Nederland die hulp nodig hebben. Volgens de meest recente cijfers van het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) zorgen in Nederland 1,9 miljoen mantelzorgers …

Challenges in keeping healthcare affordable make informal care increasingly important. It is essential to understand the context in which people provide informal care and gain insight into their wishes with regard to the division of care responsibilities. A total of 37 interviews and eight focus groups …

In recent years, Dutch authorities have attempted to shift from formal to informal care responsibilities to meet an increasing demand for care. There is a growing expectation that social and healthcare professionals will actively involve, support, and collaborate with partners, family members, and others …

The aim of this study is to investigate Dutch citizens’ care attitudes by looking at care-giving norms and citizens’ welfare state orientation and to explore to what extent these attitudes can be explained by combinations of diversity characteristics. We combined two datasets (2016 and 2018, N = 5,293) …

Aim: Informal caregivers share common experiences in providing care to someone with health and/or social needs, but at the same time their experiences differ across diverse backgrounds such as gender, age, culture, as these aspects of diversity co-shape these experiences. This scoping review aims to …