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Problems of training and cooperation in social work with elderly people in the EC countries Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Spain: a report from a research project
- Authors:
- ELIAS Gabriele, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Issues in Social Work Education, 12(1), Spring 1992, pp.24-51.
- Publisher:
- Association of Teachers in Social Work Education
Reports on a study based on a postal survey of social work training institutions in Germany, France, the U.K. and Spain. The findings are presented country-by-country and concurrently discussed in the context of the overall picture which emerges. Issues concerning basic and post-qualifying training and research in the field of social work with elderly people are examined. A diversity of provision for, and variation of the development status of, this area of social work training is identified.
Elderly people's care in Germany
- Author:
- BROOKE-ROSS R.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 21(3), 1987, pp.244-251.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
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International perspectives on community care for older people
- Editors:
- SCHARF Thomas, WENGER G. Clare
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 243p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Research study.
Contrasting European policies for the care of the elderly
- Editors:
- JAMIESON Anne, ILLSLEY Raymond
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 199p., tables, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. Part 1 examines the relationship between formal and informal care, Part 2 deals with care systems and care delivery problems. Includes chapter by Ian Sinclair, Peter Gorbach, Enid Levin and Jenny Williams: 'Community care and residential admissions: results from two empirical studies'.
Social counselling for older people—between advice and therapy
- Authors:
- POHLMANN Stefan, HEINECKER Paula, LEOPOLD Christian
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 17(3), 2014, pp.415-432.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In Europe, social counselling services increasingly follow the guiding principle active ageing. Active ageing policies help people recognise and use their physical, social and mental potential in order to participate in society according to their individual needs and capacities. Counselling the heterogeneous target group—‘older people’—implies that services should be prepared to address individual risks and resources. This article discusses the largely unclear position of social counselling for older people within social work in Europe. An empirical perspective is established with a German online survey, conducted among social counselling professionals nationwide (N = 1050). Their services were studied in terms of service provision, target groups, counsellor qualification and applied methods. The aim was to describe and classify the existing counselling provision. The study revealed that social counselling is located somewhere between advice and psychotherapy, and as such primarily focused on helping with age-related deficits and problems. A considerable proportion of client contacts results from acute crises. Still, only a third of the respondents followed a specific, defined concept in their work, and even fewer stated having gerontological qualification. Primary achievements of the study were to help classify existing social counselling services for older people and to develop basic gerontological training for counsellors. (Publisher abstract)
Growing older in the community: European projects in housing and planning
- Authors:
- BRECH Joachim, POTTER Philip
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust/Wohnbund
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 197p.,tables,illus.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Research report looking at how meeting the care and housing needs of older people, to enable them to live in the community for as long as possible, is being tackled by European countries.
The economics of care of the elderly
- Authors:
- PACOLET Jozef, WILDERCOM Celeste
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 241p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Set of papers given at a colloquium in March 1990 in Brussels, where a group of economists presented their theoretical and empirical progress on an EC initiated project on the care of elderly people. Divided into 4 parts: part 1: the ageing population and the organisation of the welfare state: macro economic analysis; part 2: significance of informal care of elderly people; part 3: how to meet the needs of elderly people: relevance of micro-economic analysis; and part 4: policy formation for older people. This section includes comparative studies of Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, West Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.
Regulating the delivery of cash‐for‐care payments across Europe
- Authors:
- GORI Cristiano, LUPPI Matteo
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 53(4), 2019, pp.567-578.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The article aims to understand how governments across Europe have modified the regulation of the delivery of cash‐for‐care schemes (CfCs) to dependent older people since the beginning of the century. In our terminology, the regulation of the CfCs delivery defines the norms, rules, and practices that public actors adopt to manage how beneficiaries can use the benefits. To discuss the regulation of CfCs delivery, an original framework is employed that take three analytical dimensions into account: the degrees of freedom in benefits' utilization (“CfCs utilization” dimension), the provision of information/orientation/advices/counselling to older people and families (“professional support” dimension), and the relationship between the delivery of CfCs and the delivery of the other publicly funded long‐term care inputs (“care system” dimension). The analysis adopts a comparative perspective, looking at six countries—Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, France, Germany, and England. Among various findings, the main one consists in showing that there has been a shared and increased interest in consolidating the regulation of CfCs delivery. This trend has been mostly directed towards the new policy aim of strengthening the professional support, a goal underestimated in the past, when this dimension was not a major topic of both debate and practice concerning CfCs across Europe. (Edited publisher abstract)
Analysing equity in the use of long-term care in Europe
- Authors:
- RODRIGUES Ricardo, ILINCA Stefania, SCHMIDT Andrea
- Publisher:
- European Commission
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 39
- Place of publication:
- Brussels
There are significant differences across social protection systems in Europe in the scope, breadth and depth of coverage of the risk to need long-term care in old-age. Together with other factors, such as education, household structure or societal values regarding care for frail older people, these differences can have a significant impact on the use of long-term care. Using SHARE data, this Research Note compares differences between European countries in the use of long-term care across income groups, for older people living at home. It analyses not only inequalities in the use of long-term care, but also differences in use that persist after differences in need have been taken into consideration, i.e. horizontal inequity. For this purpose, concentration indices, concentration curves and horizontal inequity indices are estimated for home care services and informal care. The countries analysed here are Austria, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France, Denmark, Greece, Belgium and Czech Republic. The findings suggest that differences in use of home care services across income groups mostly reflect differences in need between those same groups. For informal care, the differences in use persist even after accounting for needs, and less affluent individuals are much more likely to use informal care. Some possible causes for these differences and policy implications are considered.
Ageing and health status in adults with intellectual disabilities: results of the European Pomona II study
- Authors:
- HAVEMAN Meindert, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 36(1), March 2011, pp.49-60.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
POMONA II was a European Commission funded public health project collecting information from 14 countries using a set of key health indicators specifically relevant for people with intellectual disabilities. This research focused on age-specific differences relating to environmental and lifestyle factors and the 17 medical conditions measured by the POMONA Checklist of Health Indicators. The article describes how information was collected using the POMONA Health Interview Survey and Evaluation Form from a sample of 1,253 participants in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and the United Kingdom. It then presents the results of the analysis, with tables showing characteristics of people with intellectual disabilities in the study, frequency of social contacts with relatives or friends according to age, lifestyle risk factors in people with intellectual disabilities according to age, and general and age-specific prevalence rates of health problems. The authors discuss how healthy older adults with intellectual disabilities are with regard to lifestyle factors, and whether there are health disparities between older adults with and without intellectual disabilities. They note that some evidence of health disparities was found for older people with intellectual disabilities, particularly in terms of under diagnosed or inadequately managed preventable health conditions.