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Care poverty: when older people's needs remain unmet
- Author:
- KROGER Teppo
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 359
- Place of publication:
- London
This open access book brings together feminist social policy research to analyse deprivation and inequalities and highlights the care poverty approach. This book outlines three different domains of care poverty (personal care poverty, practical care poverty and socio-emotional care poverty) and differentiates between main methods how unmet needs are measured. This book summarises the existing knowledge on the prevalence, factors and consequences of unmet care needs and interprets these comparatively in the light of social inequalities and care policy models of different welfare states. The book puts forward a novel theoretical framework to guide future research work and public discussion on the issue of unmet long-term care needs, by broadening the current discussion so that inadequate care is seen in its societal and policy contexts, taking structural issues and policy designs into account. (Edited publisher abstract)
Care research and disability studies: nothing in common?
- Author:
- KROGER Teppo
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 29(3), August 2009, pp.398-420.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Disability researchers have voiced the criticism that the concept of care, together with research based on it, consists of the view that disabled people are dependent non-autonomous second-class citizens. The perspectives of disability studies and care research certainly are different from each other. Disability studies analyse the oppression and exclusion of disabled people and emphasize that disabled people need human rights and control over their own lives. Care research focuses rather on care relationships, informal and formal care, care-giving work and `an ethics of care'. Nevertheless, it is suggested here that the two perspectives are not mutually exclusive and that the two groups could learn from each other's approaches. For example, the relationship between disabled people and their personal assistants has much the same characteristics as the care relationship and requires a balancing of the needs and interests of the two parties. On the other hand, access to adequate care could be perceived as a basic civil and human right.
Bruket, kommunen och socialvrden. (The factory, the municipality and local social welfare.)
- Author:
- KROGER Teppo
- Journal article citation:
- Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid, 14(3), 1994, pp.163-176.
- Publisher:
- Universitetsforlaget AS
This article discusses the different phases in the development of local social welfare in a Finnish manufacturing community from the beginning of this century to the depression of the 1990s. Instead of state-centralism the aim is to grasp an understanding of the construction of personal social services from the viewpoint of local community. The essential questions are about the roles and the interrelations of the factory and the municipality.
Combining paid work and family care: policies and experiences in international perspective
- Authors:
- KROGER Teppo, YEANDLE Sue
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 256
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time, both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and care has previously focused mostly on childcare. Combining paid work and family care widens the debate, bringing into discussion the experiences of those providing support to their partners, older relatives and disabled or seriously ill children. The book analyses the situations of these working carers in Nordic, liberal and East Asian welfare systems. Highlighting what can be learned from individual experiences, the book analyses the changing welfare and labour market policies which shape the lives of working carers in Finland, Sweden, Australia, England, Japan and Taiwan. The book is arranged in three parts: working carers of older people; working parent-carers of disabled children; and working partner-carers. (Edited publisher abstract)
The local and the national in community care: exploring policy and politics in Finland and Britain
- Authors:
- BURAU Viola, KROGER Teppo
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 38(7), December 2004, pp.775-792.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
International literature on community care tends to focus on the national level of welfare institutions and policies. However, community care is largely a locally tailored service and this paper makes a case for local comparisons of community care policies. Using local case studies from Finland and Britain, the paper argues that focusing on the local level contributes to the comparative study of community care in two ways. First, local comparisons highlight the often distinctively local nature of community care policies and thereby add to our understanding of community care. Second, local comparisons extend existing cross-country explanations of community care by showing that community care is largely shaped by local politics, together with indirect structuring by national contexts. As such, the local case studies highlight the importance of the relationship between policy and politics, which has often been neglected in comparative research.
Ageing in place together: older parents and ageing offspring with intellectual disability
- Authors:
- CHOU Yueh-Ching, KROGER Teppo
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 42(2), 2022, pp.480-494.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Limited research has been conducted about ageing in place among older parents who co-habit with their ageing offspring with intellectual disability (ID). This study aims to explore which older parents would choose ageing in place together with their ageing offspring with ID instead of moving and what factors are associated with this choice. A face-to-face interview was conducted using the ‘housing pathways’ framework with older parents (⩾60 years) co-habiting with their ageing offspring with ID (⩾40 years) from two local authorities in Taiwan. In total, 237 families completed a census survey between June and September 2015. The results showed that 61.6 per cent of the participants would choose ageing in place with their ageing offspring with ID, while 38.4 per cent of the participants would stay in their previous place without their disabled children, move in with their other children or move to a nursing home. Logistic regression analyses revealed that parents who preferred ageing in place together with their offspring with ID were more likely to own a house (‘personal control’), have higher levels of life satisfaction (‘self-esteem’) and satisfaction with their current community (‘self-identity’), and have a lower level of social support than parents who chose another option. To meet the needs of older parents and their ageing offspring with ID, care and housing transitions should be considered as part of long-term care policy. (Edited publisher abstract)
Community care in Taiwan: mere talk, no policy
- Authors:
- CHOU Yueh-Ching, KROGER Teppo
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Mental Health, 2(2/3), 2004, pp.139-155.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article explores the policy definitions and the funder roles of central and local governments in community care in Taiwan. The notion of community care has been adopted in Taiwan following the model of Hong Kong but the main question of the article is whether this has resulted in actual service provisions at the community level, forming an alternative to institutional care. The data has been collected from several sources: policy documents, official statistics, surveys, general reports, funding provision reports, and empirical studies. The results show that neither central nor local authorities are seriously involved in caring for elderly people or persons with disabilities in Taiwan's communities. In Taiwan, community care for these groups of people still means, in practice, informal care provided by female family members without any support from public policies. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Universal breadwinner versus universal caregiver model: fathers' involvement in caregiving and well-being of mothers of offspring with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- CHOU Yueh-Ching, KROGER Teppo, PU Cheng-yun
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 29(1), 2016, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Background: The universal breadwinner model means both parents are employed; while the universal caregiver model implies that the father's hours of caregiving are equal or higher to those of the mother. This study aims to examine the hypothesis that the universal caregiver model is more related to the overall well-being of mothers of children with intellectual disabilities than the universal breadwinner model. Methods: Face-to-face interview surveys were conducted in 2011 in Taiwan with 876 working-age mothers who had an offspring with intellectual disabilities. The survey included 574 mothers living with their husbands who became participants. Results: Both anova and regression analyses indicated that, compared with mothers in the universal breadwinner group, mothers in the universal caregiver group had higher levels of maternal marital and family life satisfaction, but not of work satisfaction and quality of life. Conclusions: An incentive policy is critical for supporting the fathers involved in lifelong caregiving and to promote the mothers' quality of life. (Edited publisher abstract)
Predictors of job satisfaction among staff in residential settings for persons with intellectual disabilities: a comparison between three residential models
- Authors:
- CHOU Yueh-Ching, KROGER Teppo, LEE Yue-Chune
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 23(3), May 2010, pp.279-289.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This cross-sectional study in Taiwan aimed to assess whether there are differences in staff job satisfaction between 3 residential models for adults with intellectual disabilities, and to investigate the organisational and individual variables associated with staff job satisfaction. The 3 models of residential settings investigated were: small residential home; group home; and institution. A total of 1301 study participants were recruited from 77 settings (25 small residential homes, 33 group homes, and 19 institutions). The participants completed a standardised self-administered questionnaire (Job Satisfaction Survey) together with demographic questions. The results found that staff working at small homes had a significantly higher level of job satisfaction than staff from the other 2 models. Logistic regression revealed that the characteristics of the organisations at which they were employed rather than the staff's individual characteristics were strongly associated with job satisfaction. This study suggests that the residential model and the provider sector of the residential setting are factors of concern when ensuring staff job satisfaction.