Spending a lot of energy doing work for eight hours a day and then coming home to take care of caregiving responsibilities — that’s the everyday reality for working caregivers.
“Working caregivers really work almost a second shift at home,” says Liv Mendelsohn, executive director of the Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence, in talking with Canadian HR Reporter (CHRR).
Aside from their regular job, they are “juggling all the concerns of caregiving, and then coming home and providing another 30 hours a week on average of unpaid work in caregiving.”
