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The economic benefit for care in the family environment and support to non-professional caregivers is being used in a majority way as a minimum subsistence income for caregivers: women with few resources, few education and who are unemployed or inactive To take care of household chores.
This is one of the conclusions of the doctoral thesis held at the University of Murcia (UMU) by José Ángel Martínez López and has obtained the qualification of outstanding cum laude.
This research, which was led by UMU professors Juan Carlos Solano Lucas and María Dolores Frutos Balibrea, is responsible for studying the Dependency Law and the factors that influence the use of the aforementioned economic benefit.
The doctoral thesis also refers to the economic crisis that began in Spain in 2007 and its consequences, as have been the increase in poverty rates, inequality and unemployment, together with the incidence all this has had in the Region of Murcia, which is said to have been one of the Autonomous Communities with greater concession of the economic benefit for care in the family environment and support for non-professional caregivers.
The data analyzed correspond to the municipality of Murcia, and they have been obtained through surveys and personal interviews, among other sources.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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