The Pivot Generation: Informal care and work after 50, published last week by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, says that a decline in the number of young people in the workforce is forcing employers to retain older staff, especially women. The pressure on people in their fifties and sixties to remain in paid jobs meant fewer of them would be available to help their own grown-up children with childcare.
The report found that two in three people between 50 and the retirement ages of 60 and 65 are in paid work, and that by the age of 50, one in three people have grandchildren.
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