WORK MADE (IN)VISIBLE: MAPPING INTERSECTIONS OF INFORMATION WORK AND CARE WORK

With government endorsement of aging in place, a growing reliance on family caregivers who provide unpaid care for aging family members prompts further investigation. Seeking, interpreting, creating, and sharing information (examples of information work) are one such facet of unpaid care. Information work saturates every facet of caregiving, providing tools for coping, problem solving, and dealing with uncertainty through knowledge, …