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Love Doesn't Pay The BillsLove Doesn't Pay the Bills makes visible the often unseen experience of family caregiving, and it's relation to other aspects of life. In Love Doesn't Pay the Bills, we explore the role of family caregivers in the modern United States through... Author: Two Squared Media Productions
In Love Doesn't Pay the Bills, we explore the role of family caregivers in the modern United States through personal stories and interviews with leaders. Care work is vital to all other aspects of life, yet often under-resourced. Caregivers cannot house and feed ourselves or provide for our own medical needs based on our love for our family members alone: access to income matters. We also have the same needs as other workers for regular time off, to participate in social life and recreation, and for ongoing education and new opportunities over time. email Lisa: lisatschudi@twosquaredmediaproductions.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/love-doesn-t-pay-the-bills--5692861/support. Language: en Genres: Documentary, Kids & Family, Parenting, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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There are Roles for Both Informal and Formal Supports in Caregiving: With Guest Donna Thomson
Thursday, 24 April, 2025
Informal or natural supports are care that is provided as part of a relationship, unpaid and outside of particular organizations or structures. It's what we build relationships from and a deep part of being human. Formal supports are the paid caregivers who do specific tasks at specific times as part of a paid job within some kind of organization. For example: A parent providing care for their own child is informal support, and a teacher at a preschool provides formal support. Formal supports cannot replace family care, but they can wrap around the whole dyad or family to support the meaningful, loving care which happens informally. Donna Thomson is a co-author of a study on the interaction between formal supports and informal.Donna Thomson is a caregiver, author and award-winning educator. She is the mother of two grown children, one who has severe cerebral palsy and medical complexity. Donna also helped care for her mother who lived with dementia until she passed away in the summer of 2018 at the age of 96. Donna is the co-author (with Dr. Zachary White) of The Unexpected Journey of Caring: The Transformation of Loved One to Caregiver (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and author of The Four Walls of My Freedom: Lessons I’ve Learned From a Life of Caregiving (The House of Anansi Press, 2014). Donna is a co-founder and Co-Director of CanChild Family Engagement in Research Program and she facilitates the Caregiving Essentials Course, all at McMaster University. She currently sits on the advisory board of the Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence where she won the inaugural Vickie Cammack Trailblazer Award.Read more about the study on Donna's BlogBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/love-doesn-t-pay-the-bills--5692861/support.
