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The client interview and the context
- Author:
- SORENSEN T. Berg
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(3), July 1998, pp.244-251.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Based on analysis of interviews from a Danish social welfare office, this article examines the questions: how and to what extent are macro structures such as social legislation and local municipal rules brought into real life existence in the meeting between case workers and clients? To what extent do the case workers show rule-conforming practice? Finds that social workers showed a considerable distance from the social security office.
Symbolic purposes and factual consequences of the concepts "self-reliance" and "dependency" in contemporary discourses on welfare
- Author:
- HALVORSEN K.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(1), January 1998, pp.56-64.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
This article discusses how to be self-reliant has been a dominant norm in Western societies since early Christianity. Today the concept has the symbolic purpose of maintaining individualism and the work ethic in capitalism and reducing dependency on the state. Contrasts the original meaning of individual self-reliance with its contemporary use in public discourses on welfare. Using examples from the United States, the United Kingdom and Norway, the article attempts to demonstrate the hegemonic use of the concepts of self-reliance and dependency today provides ideological justifications for keeping people in poverty and outside the mainstream of life.
Is home care a realistic alternative to residential care among institutionalized elderly people in Finland?
- Authors:
- NORO A., ARO S.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 5(4), October 1996, pp.249-258.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
The high rate of institutionalisation among elderly people in Finland is widely among policy-makers. Studies how realistic the wishes for deinstitutionalisation are among the least sick elderly people in residential care, and what patient characteristics predict whether residential care is appropriate. This issue was assessed by the residential home personnel. Personnel assessment of institutional care as appropriate was mainly explained by patients' needing help with medication, limitations in activities of daily living, absence of own home return to, no living children, incontinence, and poor vision. Discharging elderly people from long-term residential care back to society is limited by factors such as inadequate housing and shortage of domiciliary care and rehabilitative services, as well as by attitudes among the institutionalised elderly people themselves. It seems more realistic to prevent the inappropriate institutionalisation of elderly people that to discharge the small numbers of fairly independent individuals already in residential homes.