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The residential home - what difference does it make? Comparing the public systems of care for the elderly and disabled in two Swedish municipalities
- Author:
- LAGERGREN M.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 2(1), January 1993, pp.25-32.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Two municipalities in Sweden - Solna and Sigtuna - have taken part in a project (the ASIM project) aimed at developing a system for monitoring and analysing the public system of long-term care and assistance for elderly and disabled people. The two municipalities have chosen different alternatives in the question of residential homes. In Solna they have been retained and in Sigtuna they have been converted into sheltered housing. By separating the clients into different classes of dependence using the ASIM assessment, it is shown that in Solna, compared with Sigtuna, fewer of the most dependent clients are in long-term hospital care and fewer of the high-medium category are in domiciliary care. The data were used to calculate the distribution of clients and the average dependence on the different levels of care if Solna were to apply the care pattern of Sigtuna and vice versa.
Are there differences in standard of care for the elderly? A comparative study of assistance decisions in Stockholm
- Authors:
- LAGERGREN M., JOHANSSON P-A.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(4), October 1998, pp.340-349.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Discusses how according to Swedish law, an elderly dependent person is entitled to public services in the form of home help in ordinary housing or a place in special housing - i.e. sheltered housing, a residential home or a nursing home. Describes a study of ten districts in Stockholm in order to determine whether there were systematic differences between districts with regard to provision of services to the elderly.