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Informal care and support for carers in Sweden: patterns of service receipt among information caregivers and care recipients
- Author:
- JEGERMALM Magnus
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 7(1), 2004, pp.7-24.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes and analyses the kinds of support received by different categories of informal carers, and the kinds of help that care recipients receive in addition to that provided by various categories of carers. Data were collected in a Swedish county in 2000, using telephone interviews. The net sample consisted of 2,697 individuals 18-84 years old, and the response rate was 61 percent. The results showed that relatively few carers in any care category received any kind of support aimed directly at them as carers. The most widespread form of support received by providers of personal care was relief services. Those most likely to be receiving care from the public care system were people also receiving personal care from an informal caregiver. Nevertheless, the majority of those receiving personal
Carers in Sweden: the public support they receive, and the support they desire
- Authors:
- JEGERMALM Magnus, SUNDSTRÖM Gerdt
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 7(1), 2013, pp.17-25.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article describes and analyses public support for Swedish unpaid carers, now mandated by law, and also the support that they desire, using surveys conducted in 2008, 2009, and later. Few carers helping someone in a different household - the large majority of the carers - received any support aimed directly at them, such as access to support groups, training, relief service, or financial support. Yet, most carers did not desire any support for themselves. They mostly wanted public services for the cared-for person, all of which may also indirectly support carers. Intra-household carers - about a tenth of all carers - have vastly larger care commitments than other carers. Some of them desire support for themselves, usually relief services of financial support. Three out of 10 of these carers used any public support, despite the new (2009) legislation that only a minority of carers know about. There is a wide gap between policies and their implementation, but also some reluctance among carers to use public support for themselves. The relationship between carers and the state is unclear in Sweden and this reflects on the aims and the forms of support. Stereotypes about ‘typical’ carers may have impeded adequate forms of support. (Publisher abstract)
Using the salutogenic approach to unravel informal caregivers’ resources to health: theory and methodology
- Authors:
- WENNERBERG Mia M. T., LUNDGREN Solveig M., DANIELSON Ella
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 16(3), April 2012, pp.391-402.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Caregiving is usually assumed to be a stressful event, hazardous to caregivers’ health. This article describes a salutogenic approach to focus on caregivers’ perceptions concerning how they find solutions to their problems and on the identification of their resources to health. The aim of the article is to provide a detailed description of how an approach derived from salutogenic theory was used and how it permeated the entire study, from design, data collection and analysis, to findings. Using an explorative, mixed method design, data was collected through salutogenically guided interviews with 32 Swedish caregivers to older adults. A constant comparative method of analysis was used to identify caregiver-General Resistant Resources (GRRs), content analysis was further used to describe how participation was experienced. The described salutogenic approach reveals the GRRs caregivers use to obtain positive experiences of caregiving, and also the hindrances for such usage. Mixed data made it possible to venture beyond actual findings to derive a synthesis describing the experienced, communal context of the population reliant on these GRRs; referred to as ‘caregivinghood’. Participating in the salutogenic data collection was found to be a reflective, mainly positive, empowering and enlightening experience. It is suggested that the ability to describe ‘caregivinghood’ may be essential when developing health-promoting strategies for caregivers.
Impacts on practitioners of using research-based carer assessment tools: experiences from the UK, Canada and Sweden, with insights from Australia
- Authors:
- GUBERMAN Nancy, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 11(4), July 2003, pp.345-355.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Researchers and practitioners in several Western countries have developed tools for assessing the situation of carers of ill, elderly or disabled adults. This article describes the impact of 3 such tools, from Canada, the UK and Sweden, on assessors' professional practice. All tools were tested in agency-based studies. Focus groups, workshops and interviews with assessors were employed most workers found that the tools facilitated a more comprehensive, in-depth and carer-focused assessment. Experience across them all suggests that, used sensitively, such tools and approaches can play a key role in transforming the relationship between carers and the health and social care system. Giving carers a legitimate voice, acknowledging their perspective and expertise and making them central to assessment processes accords them status as active partners and as individuals with their own needs and aspirations, rather than seeing them primarily as resources. As a result of their experiences, many workers and administrators concluded that home-care programmes must change their mandate to include carers among their clients, raising the issue of available monetary and human resources to meet the needs
Young carers in Europe: an exploratory cross-national study in Britain, France, Sweden and Germany
- Editor:
- BECKER Saul
- Publisher:
- Loughborough University. Department of Social Science. Young Carers Research Gro
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 106p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Loughborough
Research report revealing the extent to which young carers have been ignored in Europe and highlighting issues for future policy formulation.
Why do the Scandinavian governments compensate family members who care for elderly kin?
- Author:
- SIPILA Jorma
- Journal article citation:
- Care in Place the International Journal of Networks and Community, 1(3), December 1994, pp.261-271.
Includes a commentary from Finland about government policy on financial compensation for carers. Current practices in Nordic countries are reviewed, with a brief overview of other European government policies, including the UK. Implications for health/social services staff, non-government workers, and carers are identified.
Daughters helping their elderly mothers: impact of early attachment, daughter's trait anxiety and helping interaction characteristics
- Authors:
- LARSSON Gerry, WILDE B.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 3(3), July 1994, pp.167-172.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
The aim of the study reported here was to explore the relationships between early attachment between mother and daughter, the adult daughter's general anxiety level, and characteristics of the helping interaction between the adult daughter and her elderly mother on the one hand and the quality of this help on the other.
Family care of the elderly: social and cultural changes
- Editor:
- KOSBERG Jordan I.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 329p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Newbury Park, CA
Takes a global look at care for older people within the family circle, and compares and contrasts global changes in the last decade.
Ageing and caregiving: theory, research and policy
- Editors:
- BIEGEL David E., BLUM Arthur
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 294p., diags., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Newbury Park, CA
Looks at trends and issues affecting the elderly and their carers in the United States. Includes chapters on care of the elderly in China and in Sweden.
Work-care reconciliation policy: legislation in policy context in eight countries
- Authors:
- YEANDLE Sue, WILSON Katherine, STARR Madeleine
- Publisher:
- German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 53
... Finland, France, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden and the UK. It also provides detailed information about the voluntary support provided by ‘Employers for Carers’, an employer-led forum established in the UK by the national charity Carers UK. It also details approaches to work-care reconciliation from six of its membership organisations to inform wider policy debates. The report aims to indicate how policy developments in several different spheres – support for older people; flexibility and leave options at work; and financial assistance, recognition and rights for carers – shape carers' experience. The conclusion emphasises that linking these policies is vital if caring is to be feasible and sustainable, without unfair health, financial or social penalties for carers, in ageing societies dependent on high (Edited publisher abstract)