Florence Becot

New research brief from @elenapojman.com and Florence Becot on caregiving in the northeast region of the U.S.

Does Caregiver Well‐Being Differ by Rurality and State Policy Environment? Identifying a Well‐Being Typology for Rural, Suburban, and Urban Caregivers Despite caregiving making up a considerable portion of how individuals and governments spend their time and money, its impacts on caregivers' well-being are not well understood. In this article, we i....

New in Rural Sociology: Caregiver well-being varies across rural, surburban, and urban places.

We find:
- Rural & surburban caregivers are worse-off than urbanites.
- State-level family policy matters little.

Caregivers deserve support, & policy should reflect that.
doi.org/10.1111/ruso...

Shout out to my amazing coauthors @florence-becot.bsky.social, Zuzana Bednarik, & Carrie Henning-Smith and support from the NCRCRD and NERCRD, among others!

What Is Rural Well‐Being and How Is It Measured? An Attempt to Order Chaos* While a substantial body of literature has been built on rural well-being, due to the great heterogeneity of rural territories, the literature is highly fragmented, even contradictory. Moreover, no s....

Rural Sociology- three functions can be identified: (1) rurality as a resource (a productive function); (2) rurality as a living environment; (3) and finally, rurality as nature refers to an environmental function. #skpoli

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