UNEVOC Connect

Care work is to be found in a variety of settings and across formal and informal economies. Some of this care is provided by the health services sector, most of which is formal and public. Public services for childcare, early childhood education, disability and long-term care, as well as elderly care, are other areas comprising the care economy. Yet health and social services overlap with other forms of paid and unpaid care that is given, for example, by family and community members.