There are two kinds of unpaid care—I didn't get to that in my talk. One of them is the unpaid care by the people who are otherwise paid for the work. They do a lot of it. They work through lunch, they take home people's cloths to wash, they shop for them, they do all kinds of things. That's the women who do that work. For most of the people Carole talked about who come in as family, “family” is usually a term we mean for women. How can we support them?
First of all, we can support them by making sure there are enough staff there to do the necessary work. That's why they do all this unpaid work; otherwise it doesn't get done. That's the first thing we have to do.
Second, we have to provide the kind of training and protections for those family members who do that unpaid work and who want to do it as an option. I think that by setting decent staffing levels and training and infection control, the federal government could help all of those who are doing unpaid work.