Making it work: a qualitative study of the work-care reconciliation strategies adopted by family carers in Ireland to sustain their caring role

Figures & data

Table 1. Participant characteristics.

No.	Sex	Age	Provides care for:	Care-recipients’ health condition	Employment status at time of interview	Work alteration	Reasons for altering work
1	F	51	Mother & Father*	Frailty	Part-time	Career break	Stress, lack of replacement care
2	F	55	Mother & father	Dementia, frailty	On leave	Carer’s Leave	Inflexible employer, lack of replacement care
3	F	48	Daughter	Spinal injury	Some freelance work	Combination: Job sharing, altered working days, Carer’s Leave, career break, career change	Stress, daughter’s health
4	M	62	Daughters (2)	Profound ID	Retired	Early retirement	No adult service available, lack of replacement care
5	F	53	Husband	Chronic illness	Full-time	Carer’s Leave, career change	Stress/burnout, young family, deterioration of husband’s health
6	F	41	Son	Cancer	On Career break	Career break	Son’s diagnosis, nature of medical appointments, needing to be on call and nearby
7	F	44	Daughter	Severe ID	Full-time	Carer’s leave, voluntary redundancy, career change	Inflexible employer, workplace culture
8	F	42	Daughter	Epilepsy	Full-time	Altered working hours	Issues getting to work in the morning due to caring demands
9	M	65	Wife	Dementia	Retired	Ceased accepting work opportunities & Retirement	Caring demands increased, lack of replacement care
10	M	38	Son	Rare genetic disorder, ID	Full-time	Moved to family-friendly employer, altered working hours	Son starting new school, new routine

Note: ID: intellectual disability.

Data availability statement

Due to the nature of this research, participants of this study did not agree for their data to be shared publicly, so supporting data are not available.