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A winter's tale
- Author:
- POWNALL Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Practitioner, 71(12), December 1998, pp.401-402.
- Publisher:
- Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association
The onset of winter brings familiar tales of elderly people at risk of illness and death from cold temperatures. The author asks why the winter months are so dangerous for the UK's elderly population when in other, colder countries no such problems occur.
The politics of care for elderly people in Scandinavia
- Author:
- JAKOBSSON Gunborg
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 1(1), March 1998, pp.87-93.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes the issues currently impacting on the social welfare system in Scandinavia, especially as they affect older people.
Are Scandinavian countries different? A comparison of relative incomes for older people in OECD nations
- Author:
- HAYNES Philip
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 45(2), April 2011, pp.114-130.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Using case-based methods this research examines the provision of pensions and income support for older people in OECD countries, to see whether Scandinavian countries are qualitatively different to other OECD nations. The study also looked at whether Scandinavian countries for a separate cluster that defines their coverage for women. Scandinavia can be clearly identified in a separate cluster, but it is not alone and other countries also share its similarities. Scandinavia emerges in a cluster that provides more income replacement and protection for women. In part, this is reinforced by the high rate of labour participation by women in Scandinavian countries. However, there is little evidence of Scandinavian countries retaining noticeable differences and divergence in income protection policies for men.
Social policy review 1990-91
- Editor:
- MANNING Nick
- Publisher:
- Longman
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 267p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Harlow
In three sections: the greening of social policy; the European Community and social policy (including chapters on elderly people, lone parent families and Scandinavian welfare systems); and the labour market and social policy (including a chapter on women and work).
Gender and caring: work and welfare in Britain and Scandinavia
- Editor:
- UNGERSON Clare
- Publisher:
- Harvester Wheatsheaf
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 205p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Hemel Hempstead
Brings together a collection of papers that develops a comparative analysis of the way in which women in general, and mothers and carers in particular, are affected by social policy, with the central question being in what sense is caring for frail elderly or children 'work', how should it be remunerated. Also looks at how far labour market change, particularly in trends in women's employment, has fed into social policy development.