Comparative welfare policy

  The Physical and psychological well being of Long-term carers is a challenging issue in Welfare Policy of Australia. What does Australia can learn from Sweden and Japan? some thoughts:  How should Australia decrease the gender inequality?  How can improve the well-being of carers policy in Australia: -By providing various programs such as a day care services, respite care and -Information service / introducing the health related information of care receivers, to reduce the stress and psychological burden help with professionals /examples from Sweden there is the best health care practices and enough / -Additional services such as ….  Can the robots /example from Japan/ and high technology help to increase their well-being and health? /helping to have a bath and carrying the care receivers or other everyday action support/ to help carers health. References: 1. On Sweden: Martha Szebehely and Gabrielle Meagher. You might also like to read up on privatisation in Sweden and the project NOMACARE. See, for example here: http://www.normacare.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Marketisation-in-nordic-eldercare-webbversion-med-omslag1.pdf Japan Payroll & Benefits. (2018). Paid Vacation. Retrieved 04 02, 2018, from http://japan-payroll.com/japan-employee-benefits/ Aspalter, C. ed., 2017. The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. Brennan D., Cass B., Himmelweit S, et al. (2012). The marketisation of care: Rationales and consequences in Nordic and liberal care regimes. Journal of European Social Policy 22: 377-391. Japan Payroll & Benefits. (2018). Paid Vacation. Retrieved 04 02, 2018, from http://japan-payroll.com/japan-employee-benefits/ Cole, R. and Gucciardo-Masci, T., 2003. For Love, for Faith, for Duty, for Deed: Beliefs and Values about Caring in the Anglo-Celtic, Greek, Italian, Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese Communities in Victoria: a Report Prepared for Carers Victoria. Carers Victoria. Colombo, F., Llena-Nozal, A., Mercier, J., & Tjadens, F. L. J. (2011). Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long-Term Care. Paris, France: OECD Publishing. Daly M and Lewis J. (1998). Introduction: conceptualising social care in the context of welfare state restructuring. In: Lewis J (ed) Gender, social care and welfare state restructuring in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. Daly M. (2002). Care as a Good for Social Policy. Journal of Social Policy 31: 251-279. Daly M and Lewis J. (2000). The Concept of Social Care and the Analysis of Contemporary Welfare States. British Journal of Sociology 51: 281-298. Esping‐Andersen, G., 1989. The three political economies of the welfare state. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 26(1), pp.10-36. Japan Payroll & Benefits. (2018). Paid Vacation. Retrieved 04 02, 2018, from http://japan-payroll.com/japan-employee-benefits/ Japan Payroll & Benefits. (2018). Paid Vacation. Retrieved 04 02, 2018, from http://japan-payroll.com/japan-employee-benefits/ Gros, D., Alcidi, C., & Behrens, A. (2013). The global economy in 2030: trends and strategies for Europe. https://www.ceps.eu/system/files/Global%20Economy%20in%202030_small_0.pdf. Ikeda, S., 2016. Addressing the Issue of Fatigue among Working Carers: The Next Challenge after Reforming the Family Care Leave System. Japan Labor Review, 13(2). Japan Payroll & Benefits. (2018). Paid Vacation. Retrieved 04 02, 2018, from http://japan-payroll.com/japan-employee-benefits/ Kremer M. (2005). The Cultural Dimension of Welfare States. Ideals of Care and Women's Work. Paper presented at the RC19 Meeting Chicago, 8-10 September 2005. Kremer M. (2007). How Welfare States Care, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Knijn T and Kremer M. (1997). Gender and the Caring Dimension of Welfare States: Toward Inclusive Citizenship. Social Politics 4: 328-361. Obi, T., Auffret, J.-P., & Iwasaki, N. (2013). Aging society and ICT: Global Silver Innovation. Amsterdam, IOS Press. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/concordiaab-ebooks/detail.action?doc ID=1477326. Pfau-Effinger B. (1998). Gender cultures and the gender arrangement - a theoretical framework for cross-national gender research. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences 11: 147-166. Pfau-Effinger B. (2004). Development of culture, welfare states and women's employment in Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. Japan Payroll & Benefits. (2018). Paid Vacation. Retrieved 04 02, 2018, from http://japan-payroll.com/japan-employee-benefits/