On 2016 Oct 11, Gillian Parker commented:

It would be good to look at this paper alongside Julia Twigg's classification, similarly developed from qualitative research in the late 1980s (see https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-social-policy/article/models-of-carers-how-do-social-care-agencies-conceptualise-their-relationship-with-informal-carers/257776AD70ADD40F45683DF45086813A).

There are echoes here of her model of how service providers view carers: as resources; as co-workers; and or as co-clients (with the person they are caring for).

There are even stronger echoes of Lewis and Meredith's work (Daughters Who Care, 1988; London:Routledge ISBN 0-415-00682-1) where, again based on qualitative work, they classified three types of response to caring: balancing care; integrating care; and immersion in care.

It would be good to think about how all three models/typologies stack up with each other, across different types of carers in different circumstances, and across time!

On 2016 Oct 11, Gillian Parker commented:

It would be good to look at this paper alongside Julia Twigg's classification, similarly developed from qualitative research in the late 1980s (see https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-social-policy/article/models-of-carers-how-do-social-care-agencies-conceptualise-their-relationship-with-informal-carers/257776AD70ADD40F45683DF45086813A).

There are echoes here of her model of how service providers view carers: as resources; as co-workers; and or as co-clients (with the person they are caring for).

There are even stronger echoes of Lewis and Meredith's work (Daughters Who Care, 1988; London:Routledge ISBN 0-415-00682-1) where, again based on qualitative work, they classified three types of response to caring: balancing care; integrating care; and immersion in care.

It would be good to think about how all three models/typologies stack up with each other, across different types of carers in different circumstances, and across time!