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Anyone combining paid work with caring for relatives or close friends who need lots of help will quickly run out of time. It is even possible that they will become overburdened due to the effort of combining tasks. For this reason, the government is considering the introduction of paid long-term care leave, which can be used by workers who are already or are about to start providing a large amount of care.
This report describes the daily lives of people who combine working with care tasks and investigates which of them would be interested in paid long-term care leave. It also contains estimates of the effects that such a scheme could have on the informal care that is given in the Netherlands, on the use that is made of home care services and on the burden placed on working informal carers.
The results serve as input for the public debate on the desirability and design of a long-term paid care leave scheme