Brendan
Churchill

As populations age, women's workforce participation grows and AI advances, understanding attitudes towards care technologies becomes increasingly important. This study examines attitudes towards robot caregivers for older adults across 28 European countries, using 2017 Eurobarometer data from working-age adults (20–59; n = 13,839).

While survey research design tends to prioritise closed questions with predetermined responses, many surveys conclude with an open-ended ‘anything else you would like to tell us?’ question. This question, designed to elicit feedback or create opportunities for respondents to share additional information, offers significant potential for insight into respondents’ experiences.

Authored by: B Churchill

Over 2.6 million Australians provide informal, unpaid care to a family member or friend who lives with a disability, long-term health condition, terminal illness, or frailty. Inevitably, all informal care experiences come to an end, though the circumstances may vary; for example, the person being cared for may recover or improve, others may take over caring duties, or caring may end in bereavement.

Over 2.6 million Australians provide informal, unpaid care to a family member or friend who lives with a disability, long-term health condition, terminal illness, or frailty. Former carers have been shown to experience profound aftereffects of caring, including poor health, loneliness, limited employment opportunities, and financial precarity.