Who Cares?
The ethics of caring in a good society: a national conversation
- What is a good society?
- What is caring*?
- Who is responsible for caring?
- What does caring look like in a good society?
St James Ethics Centre has joined in partnership with Carers NSW and Macquarie Bank Foundation in the Who Cares? project. The Centre’s role in this project is that of the independent researcher.
Dr Simon Longstaff, Executive Director of St James Ethics Centre said, “The Who Cares? project will include the following phases: to research nationally what fundamental values might be held by a civil society; to determine the implications these values have at personal and systemic levels for caring for people of all ages who have a chronic illness, a disability, a mental illness or who are frail aged”.
The research will be conducted during the next eighteen months. The process will be rigorous with the first stage of the research comprising a series of focus groups for which the Steering Committee of the project Who Cares? will be responsible.
Following the completion of these focus groups (we anticipate this to be towards the end of 2007) there will be two online surveys - one qualitative and the other quantitative - on the Centre’s website.
* Caring in this context refers to caring for people of all ages who have a chronic illness, a disability, a mental illness or who are frail aged.