Table 2.

Categories of Care Tasks.

Care tasks	Category
What kind of help do you provide?
1. Keeping company, contact	Keeping company/ an eye on
2. Keeping an eye on someone [e.g., checking that everything is alright, regular phone contact]
3. Personal care [e.g., hygiene, help with medications, moving from A to B]	Personal care
4. Housework [e.g., cleaning, preparing meals, food shopping]
5. Administrative tasks/paperwork [e.g., banking, contact with authorities, healthcare]	Practical help
6. Transport [e.g., giving a lift in a car]
7. Gardening, household repairs etc.
8. Other	Excluded from the analysis