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Age-Friendly Business TM. Canadian Center for Elder Law. PRESENTS:. and. . FAMILY CAREGIVING Faculty: Laura Watts, LL.B., National Director, CCEL. AGING AND THE LAW SERIES What Every Professional Needs to Know. Part C. Webinar 12. What is Family Caregiving?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Age-Friendly Business TM
Canadian Center for Elder Law
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PRESENTS:
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FAMILY CAREGIVING Faculty: Laura Watts, LL.B., National Director,
CCEL
Webinar 12
Part C
AGING AND THE LAW SERIESWhat Every Professional Needs to Know
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What is Family Caregiving?
Caring for dependent or vulnerable adult family members, rather than contracting this work out to third parties outside the family
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What is Family Caregiving?
Family Caregiving relationships include: Short term - weeks or days Long term - months and years Fluctuating conditions Degenerative conditions Temporary care e.g., post-surgical Episodic care
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What is Family Caregiving?
Family caregiving, also known as informal caregiving, is the norm in many cultures around the world.
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What is Family Caregiving?
Informal caregiving includes the care of friends and neighbors.
(People who care for friends and neighbors are the second largest group next to those who care for mothers).
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What Do Family Caregivers Do? Personal care Communication with doctors
and therapists Emotional and social support Cooking, shopping and
household tasks Bathing and dressing Mobility assistance Operating medical equipment
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Statistics
On average, employed caregivers report providing almost 20 hours per month
Stobart, S. and K. Cranswick (2004), “Looking after seniors: Who does what for whom?” Canadian Social Trends. No. 74, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 11-008-XIE
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More than 1.7 MILLION adults aged 45-64 provided informal care to almost 2.3 MILLION seniors with long term disabilities or physical limitations.
Of these care providers, 70% were employed in 2002.
Stobart, S. and K. Cranswick (2004), “Looking after seniors: Who does what for whom?” Canadian Social Trends. No. 74, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 11-008-XIE
Statistics
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Statistics on Family Caregiving
• The value of the replacement labour of unpaid family caregiving is $26 billion.
• Over 2 million Canadians over the age of 65 (2002, Stats Can).
• In 2007 Stats Can says 2.7 million.• 90% of eldercare delivered through unpaid
family caregiving.
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Statistics on Family Caregiving
• Over 1 in 4 employed Canadians care for an elderly dependent
• The majority of caregivers work the equivalent of 2 full time jobs
• Absenteeism due to caregiver strain costs Canadian employers over 1 billion dollars
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Labour and Demographics
People are living longer
and birth rates are
declining
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Statistics
Current statistics suggest that 80% of elder care is delivered through informal care arrangements and over 60% of adults with disabilities require the assistance of family members to accomplish daily living activities.
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The Role of Women
The responsibility to provide care for older adults or persons
with disabilities often falls on the women of the family.
(Source: Pyper, W. 2006)
As the primary caregivers of children mothers often assume care for adult children with disabilities, and as the traditional family caregivers they become caregivers of their elders as well.
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Labour and Demographics
Women are now justas likely as men to
maintain paidemployment outsidethe home, therefore,
there are fewer familymembers able to
assume theresponsibility of
family care.
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Labour and Demographics
Many families will opt to continue a family caregiving relationshiprather than leave the long-term care of a familymember to strangers,despite the strain of Having to juggle work and family responsibilities.
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Labour and Demographics
As the population ages, increasingly people will find themselves struggling to provide care simultaneously for children and parents, or for children, parents and grandparents (“sandwich generation”)
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Labour and Demographics
Family caregiving is an issue that is likely to impact many of us
Supporting caregivers is becoming an increasingly pressing social issue
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The Family Caregiving Legal Research Project
Employment lawPensionsTax lawHealth PolicyHuman Rights
http://www.bcli.org/bclrg/projects/family-caregiving
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The Legal Framework
Existing legal provisions fall into 3 differentCategories: 1. Compassionate care or family responsibility
leave
2. Workplace flexibility
3. Benefits and other entitlements
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Compassionate Care or Family Responsibility Leave
Allows workers to take time off work to focus temporarily on caring for a family member
Leave may be paid or unpaid
Right to a leave may arise out of the language of a collective agreement
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Compassionate Care or Family Responsibility Leave
Relevant Legislation Provincial employment standards legislation
(ex. BC Employment Standards Act) Employment Insurance Act of Canada
Provincial labour legislation (ex. BC Labour Relations Code)
Canada Labour Code
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Workplace Flexibility
Relevant Legislation: Some workers fall under the
jurisdiction of federal law (telecommunications employees), while many workers are subject to provincial human rights legislation
Provincial human rights legislation (ex. BC Human Rights Code) Canadian Human Rights Act
Allows workers and employees to find creative solutions to balance workplace and family caregiving responsibilities
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Benefits and Other Entitlements
A number of laws create benefits that aim to offset the loss of income associated with assuming family caregiving responsibilities.(ex. Caregiver Tax Credit, Dependent Tax Credit)
Relevant Legislation: Provincial Income Tax Legislation Federal Income Tax Act (Canada)
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BC Example : Employment Leave
Employment Standards Act, R.S.B.C. Limited support for family care Compassionate Care Leave : 8 weeks unpaid
leave for end-of-life care (s. 52.1) Family Responsibility Leave: 5 days unpaid leave
(s.52) Excluded employees
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Income Tax Measures
Caregiver Tax Credit Non-refundable Currently valued just over $600 Eligibility linked to financial dependency,
disability and co-residency No link to caregiver labour
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Payments to Caregivers
Choice in Support for Independent Living (CSIL)
Ministry of Health Self-managed care program Payments to family
members only by way of exceptions to policy
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Workplace Accommodation of Family Responsibilities
Workplace flexibility Hours, location, tele-working Currently at the employer’s discretion
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Workplace Accommodation of Family Responsibilities
Human Rights Code prohibits discrimination on the ground of family status Must establish that a facially-neutral rule
preventing adaptations to meet family care obligations amounts to discrimination
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Workplace Accommodation of Family Responsibilities
Test: whether “a change in a term, or condition of employment, imposed by the employer results in serious interference with a substantial parental or other family duty”
H.S.A.B.C.v. Campbell River & North Island Transition Society,
127 L.A.C. (4th) 1 (B.C.C.A.).
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Grace’s Story
Divorced woman caring for both school-aged children and aging mother
Long-term caregiving required for her mother
Works part-time due to caregiving responsibilities
Short-term work history: out of the paid work force until her divorce
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Sunita’s Story
Caring for her father-in-law following a stroke
Likely long-term care Unionized employee
working a full-time rotation that includes nights.
Requires schedule changes to maintain caregiving.
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Ingrid’s Story
Single, low-income parent of an adult child with a disability
Long-term caregiving needs
Income is a mix of welfare and occasional part-time work in childcare and housecleaning
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How Do These Caregivers Fare Under Existing Laws?
Sunita cannot get leave because not end-of-life careCannot get accommodation of caregiving without a human rights complaint
Ingrid is periodically and precariously employed
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How Do These Caregivers Fare Under Existing Laws?
Grace faces pension insecurity.
Ingrid faces lifelong poverty.
Tax measures are inaccessible.
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Law Reform Problem
The caregiving labour of all three women
is uncompensated, unrecognized and indispensible.
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Canadian Comparisons
Saskatchewan
Labour Standards Act, R.S.S., 1978, c. L-1, s. 44.2(1)(b).
Serious Illness or Injury Leave 12 weeks unpaid leave 16 weeks compassionate care
leave
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Canadian Comparisons
Manitoba
Income Tax Act, S.M. 1998, c. I10, s. 511(1).
Primary Caregiver Tax Credit. Refundable tax credit for caregivers
who provide significant care. Amount : up to 1,020 per
care recipient. Can receive for up to 3 care
recipients.
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Canadian Comparisons
Nova Scotia Allowance to Aid Caregivers
$400 monthly benefit for caregivers who provide 20 hours or more of care per week.
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International Approaches
United Kingdom and New Zealand
Work flexibility employment legislation Requires employer to consider requests to
modify terms of employment (hours of work, location) where change is required for caregiving.
Employer discretion. Act sets out broad business grounds for refusal
and there is no right of appeal.
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Social Policy Question
There was a time when a matter, such as work-life balance, would have been considered a private concern for families to work out. But when the economy, as well as families’ ability to live at prevailing community standards, depends on the supply of two workers per family, and when the fertility rate continues to drop, private risks tend to be defined as public crisis.
Terrance Hunsley, “Informal Caregivers : Balancing Work and Life Responsibilities”
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Options for Reform
Employment leave protection for non end-of-life care
Greater income replacement under EI Work flexibility legislation Caregiver allowance Refundable tax credit Adult caregiving drop-out provision
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Summary
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Family Caregiving
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