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  • Combining Employment and Caregiving: An Intricate Juggling Act*

  • Nancy Guberman, Pierre Maheu
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement / Volume 18 / Issue 1 / printemps/Spring 1999
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 November 2010, pp. 84-106

  • This article examines the process which allows caregivers to combine employment and eldercare. Using an interactionist approach, the authors present the factors which determine this process, based on a qualitative study with 25 caregivers. The article proposes that the effects of eldercare on employment are the result of the degree to which caregivers manage to maintain balance between different life spheres: personal and social life, family life, caregiving and employment. This balance is achieved by a complex process of co-ordination, negotiation, and mediation which the authors call “juggling work” and which itself is determined by a series of factors, conditions and contextual elements.