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Title Insight: Young Carers
Published Australia : SBS ONE, 2013
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Summary Australia has an invisible army of children on caring duties. They cook, clean, measure medicine ... and then do their homework. "When she has a panic attack, you've got to try and keep her legs still just in case she might kick the wall or something. I hold her until she calms down. I get her medication. When she's a bit calmer I give her a camomile tea with honey, that helps her." - John Attard, 13.This week, meet some awesome kids doing some pretty grown-up stuff. Across Australia, young people, many in their teens, are caring for a parent, sibling or other family member. It could be physical support like lifting a parent out of a wheelchair, or emotional support like calming down a parent having an anxiety attack. It could be as ordinary as making a cup of tea and washing the dishes, to highly personal care helping a parent in the bathroom.One estimate puts the number of under-18s doing caring work at 150,000.So how do they cope? How do they get a break? And how do the parents feel about being cared for by their children?
Event Broadcast 2013-05-14 at 20:30:00
Notes Classification: NC
Subject Child caregivers.
Children of parents with disabilities.
Family day care.
Mothers -- Health and hygiene.
Parent and child -- Family relationships.
Australia.
Form Streaming video
Author Brockie, Jenny, host
Attard, Francesca, contributor
Attard, John, contributor
Attard, Raymond, contributor
Healey, Finlay, contributor
Healey, Leilani, contributor
Healey, Megan, contributor
Healey, Sydney, contributor
Moore, Tim, contributor
Swann, Michelle, contributor
Taka, Tevita, contributor
Wright, Jauh, contributor
Wright, Noor, contributor