Abstract

BORGEAUD-GARCIANDIA, Natacha. Training and employment for female caregivers within the National Program of Home Care for the Elderly. Trab. soc. [online]. 2015, n.24, pp.285-313. ISSN 1514-6871.

The present article focuses on the National Program of Home Care, dependent on the Policies for the Elderly National Agency. Over the past years, the program has been subject to considerable transformation, with the inclusion of a "training and employment" branch along with the compensation objective addressed to the care beneficiaries, turning into a double perspective policy for its promoters, contemplating both caregiving and employment needs. Our aim is to strengthen this "new" program orientation, trying to unravel the representations and impacts of training and employability promoted among women workers. After a general overview of the program and some changes which took place throughout its history, we focus on the representations that are derived from the tools of work formalization and promotion, considering the experiences, working conditions and lives of female caregivers. Finally, we examine some general aspects of their employability after training, before we introduce this training and work experience into two paths that show how, despite the similarities or possible generalizations, their senses are inserted and become fully meaningful through the personal and family backgrounds, desires and projections of each female caregiver.

Keywords : Home care; National program; Female caregivers; Training; Employment; Elderly.

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