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Balancing Care: Human Rights Perspectives on Family Caregivers in Long-Term Care.

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  • 1Faculty of Law, Institute of Social Law, KU Leuven 86789 Blijde Inkomststraat 19, 3000 Leuven Belgium.

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Informal caregivers in European systems often lack legal recognition. This study explores their rights under international human rights law, identifying derivative, parallel, and conflicting rights to ensure balanced legal frameworks.

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Area of Science:

  • Human Rights Law
  • Social Care Policy
  • Disability Studies

Background:

  • European care systems increasingly rely on informal caregivers, primarily family members.
  • These caregivers often operate without explicit legal recognition or defined rights.
  • This gap creates challenges in balancing the needs of care recipients and caregivers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the extent to which informal caregivers are recognized as rights-holders under international human rights law.
  • To examine the specific rights of caregivers in relation to care recipients and professionals.
  • To propose a framework for recognizing and balancing caregiver rights within existing legal structures.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
  • Identification and categorization of different types of caregiver rights: derivative, autonomous parallel, and autonomous conflicting.
  • Comparative assessment of the approaches taken by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the CRPD.

Main Results:

  • Three categories of caregiver rights were identified: derivative rights (due to recipient burden), autonomous parallel rights (affecting caregiver's own rights), and autonomous conflicting rights (requiring balancing).
  • The CRPD offers a relational but subordinate recognition of caregiver rights.
  • The ECtHR employs a balancing approach that may grant greater weight to caregiver rights.

Conclusions:

  • A comprehensive rights-based framework is needed to acknowledge the interdependence between caregivers and recipients.
  • Principled balancing is essential where caregiver and recipient rights intersect.
  • Legal recognition of informal caregivers' rights is crucial for equitable care systems.