TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of various employment characteristics on the health of Canadian caregiver-employees (CEs), who are working full-time in the labor market while also providing informal/family care to adults.Design/methodology/approach Framed with Pearlin et al.’s (1990) stress model and using data from Statistic Canada’s General Social Survey Cycle 26 (2012), several work-related variables for caregivers were considered, including the availability of various forms of caregiver-friendly workplace policies (CFWPs), and a series of work interferences (WIs) experienced as a result of the caregiving role.Findings This study provides evidence for the value of CFWPs in all workplaces. Counter-intuitively, family and other forms of support were found to negatively relate to both physical and mental health.Originality/value This suggests that CFWPs will not only have an impact on CEs’ physical health outcomes, but will likely decrease the effect of the WIs experienced.
VL  - 11
IS  - 6
SN  - 1753-8351
DO  - 10.1108/IJWHM-04-2018-0043
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWHM-04-2018-0043
AU  - Wang Li
AU  - Williams Allison
AU  - Kitchen Peter
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - Health of caregiver-employees in Canada: Determining the value of caregiver-friendly workplace policies and social support
T2  - International Journal of Workplace Health Management
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 382
EP  - 394
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -