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1. Country reports from national teams

UK, Sweden, Finland and Taiwan on social care systems, policies and services for older people, children and people with intellectual disabilities

 Sweden team, Marta Szebehely & Petra Ulmanen & Ann-Britt Sand

 Taiwan team, Li-yeh Fu & Yueh-Ching Chou

 UK team, Sue Yeandle

 Finland team, Teppo Kröger & Sonja Miettinen & Antti Teittinen

2. Presentations of article manuscripts & drafts

(1) Qualitative papers

- AnttiTeittinen :Family carers’job description dimension:asapartof disability services and views of body and intimacy (discussant: Ching) - Yueh-Ching Chou: Making work to fit care: Reconciliation strategies of

working mothers of adults with intellectual disabilities (discussant:

Sonja)

- Sonja Miettinen: A qualitative study of Finnish family carers of adults with intellectual disabilities (discussant: Chin-ju)

- Anu Leinonen: Adult Children and Parental Caregiving: Making sense of participation structures among siblings (discussant: Sue)

- Gary Fry:‘Thingsyou can’tcontrol’- Understanding the issues that affect working age male carers (discussant: Antti)

- Chin-ju Lin: The Reconciliation of Work and Family Life of Immigrant Women in Taiwan (Chin-ju Lin presented also papers from Frank Wang & Shu-man Pan) (discussant: Marta)

- Outi Jolanki: Changing cultural discourses and changing practices of everyday life? –olderpeople’scareasan example (discussant:Gary) (2) Quantitative papers

- Kaisa Kauppinen: Combining employment and family at midlife –who cares when grandmother gets sick? (discussant: Li-yeh)

- Marta Szebehely & Petra Ulmanen: Findings from the Swedish Time Use Survey and the Labour Force Survey (discussant: Teppo)

- 4 Papers from Taiwan, presented by Yueh-Ching Chou (discussant:

Kaisa)

 Yueh-Ching Chou: Caring, employment and quality of life: a comparison of employed and non-employed mothers of adults with ID

 Yueh-Ching Chou: Effects of Paid Work and Caregiving on Women's Well-being in Taiwan

 Yea-Ing Shyu: Work and family caregiving reconciliation of adult children family caregivers for older people with dementia: An examination of role strain and depressive symptoms

 Yea-Ing Shyu: Conflict between caregiving and work moderates predicted outcomes for caregivers of elders with dementia

3. Discussion about research collaboration and plans for the future

(1) Comparative work

The group discussed chances and opportunities for collaboration and comparing quantitative and qualitative data-sets and findings. In practice plans to collect

new survey data and to do international comparison on the basis of new quantitative data-sets were postponed. For the moment it is easiest to first look if the data sets available give material to compare findings in each country. It was stated that the participants of each country need to have a closer look at what kind of data exists (questions, sampling etc.). Some of this information has already been exchanged, e.g. Taiwanese partners have delivered information about their questionnaires and data collected. In Finland, Sweden and Britain there are some quantitative data-sets on working carers (that already exist) that may have similar elements that could be compared.

Qualitative comparisons (e.g. between two countries) were strongly encouraged, that is, joint writing between researchers from several national teams. Nationally gathered interview data on carers of people with intellectual disabilities could offer opportunities for such cross-cultural comparison and perhaps the same would be true for carers of older people, as well.

Discussions about the time-table and forms of collaboration as well about funding will continue in future meetings.

(2) Future conferences and WoCaWo meetings

- 5thInternational Carers Conference, 8–11 July 2010, Leeds, UK

 Panel/Thematic group of WoCaWo group? Registration as a group or as individuals?

 Abstract deadline 31 December 2009 (paper presenters have a reduced conference fee)

 WoCaWo Project Meeting 7 July 2010 (but perhaps we could meet also on 8 July as the conference starts only with reception in the evening of 8 July?)

- Annual conference of the Taiwanese Family Caregiver Association/International Symposium, 3–4 December 2010, Taipei, Taiwan

 Accommodation can be arranged by the organizers

 WoCaWo Project Meeting 1–2 December 2010

- Final WoCaWo Project Meeting/Conference 2011, Jyväskylä, Finland

 April 2011 (in the meeting we did not yet set the month but I would now like to suggest April and the place to be in Jyväskylä)

(3) Book plan

 An edited collection in English from an international publisher

 Sue and Teppo will be the editors

 Focus on working carers of both older people and disabled people

 Theme/topic of the book? Sue and Teppo will contact possible publishers (Policy Press, others?) to find out publishers expectations/wishes

 Organization of the book: country chapters or comparative chapters? Or both e.g. Part I country chapters and Part II comparisons of findings, policies etc?

 Who will participate? Do we need other writers outside the Wocawo group?

 Sue and Teppo will develop further these first ideas, working towards a book proposal

三、 建議

此為 WoCaWo 四國合作的第三年會議,然個人則第一次參與,在參與本次 會議的過程中有所收穫及學習,以下有點建議提供我國在國際交流上之參考:

(一)在參與會議過程中,感覺其他國家之學者從前兩年的合作中已建立相當不 錯之情誼,不同國家的團隊交流有許多互動及討論,在彼此的研究中能提 供很多的支持、建議及協助,並且感覺他們並不會因為計畫結束而停止互 動,其因為長期建立的合作關係在往後也會繼續交流。這樣的中長期合作 計劃模式值得國內參考學習,透過較為長期的計畫能讓學者們之間建立更 好的合作關係。

(二)在會議中有許多國外學者帶著其學生或研究助理一起參與會議,其中亦有 參與計畫之研究生或研究助理發表報告,讓研究生也能從會議中有所學 習,而不同國家的研究生之間亦會彼此討論交流,對於培養相關領域之人 才實為良好的機會。然反觀國內國科會對於出國開會的補助,很少提供給 研究生或計畫助理。建議國科會提供這方面的補助,尤其對於參與研究計 畫的研究生助理,讓他們有出國參加研討會的學習機會,以利培育下一代 專業人才。

(三)此次參與會議的學者多以歐洲國家為主,包括如英國、芬蘭、瑞典等國家 的學者。從此次參與會議的過程中,感覺歐洲學者與美國之學者之文化與 互動方式大不相同,尤其是北歐國家之學者,其對於台灣之學者更為對 等、尊重,且更容易建立信任關係。因此建議我國在提升國際交流同時,

可多邀請歐洲(尤其是北歐國家)的學者合作。目前國科會正鼓勵與補助 與歐盟國家的合作計畫,是一個很好的政策方向。

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