Super-invisibility: ‘older’ care workers in home care and residential long-term care

This chapter takes up the paid care work conditions in three countries, Australia, Canada and Norway, to focus on age-equity considerations for the many older workers who do it. Long-term care and home care are included in one of the eight age-friendly domains, ‘community supports and health services’. This analysis shows that poor conditions within long-term care work produce poor health, safety and financial security outcomes for older care workers, a group of care workers who are the most invisible. The under-valuing of care work common in many societies exacerbates the invisibility of ageing care workers’ working and retirement conditions. The result is a positioning of ‘super-invisibility’ within policy and planning.

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