DIRECTOR
DESCRIPTION
Care provision by immigrant workers in old people’s homes is excluded from the analysis.
Specific taskload:
• Quantify the ageing process in Spain and specifically in the Madrid Region.
• Examine the meaning of immigration and its orientation to elderly care.
• Conduct a “market” analysis of the immigrant workforce engaging in elderly care.
• Identify the circumstances and conditions of demand for elderly care.
• Determine how caring employment fits within immigrants’ career paths and its relationship to their present and future training.
• Determine the individual/family decision process regarding the care of elderly relatives by reference to their assessment of personal conditions.
• Evaluate the role of family, market and institutional mechanisms in matching up supply and demand for care.
• Examine the caring process itself, in particular the personal relations formed between carers and their charges and their link to the quality of care.
• Relay research findings to social agents and government authorities for input to decision making.
• Disseminate keynote research findings in the appropriate national and international academic and scientific forums, and cascade them through the work networks to which research team members belong.