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Breaking the mould: new trajectories in the domiciliary care of older people in Ireland
- Authors:
- DOYLE Martha, TIMONEN Virpi
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 17(4), October 2008, pp.324-332.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article reviews the development of domiciliary care services for older people in Ireland over the last decade. It reveals three central developments, namely (i) the first steps, in the Irish context, towards a quasi-market; (ii) the introduction of cash-for-care and the subsequent notable segmentation of care tasks among three provider groups; and (iii) a rapidly increasing reliance on for-profit private home care providers. The authors conclude that while the Irish social care regime is still anchored in important ways in the primacy of informal (family) care and the subsidiarity principle, it has broken path-dependency by evolving towards an increasingly complex mix of public, not-for-profit and for-profit provision and financing. The most policy-relevant aspect of this new constellation is the lack of a regulatory framework that would enable the State to monitor the multiple and diverse providers with the view to ensuring the quality of home care services.
Ageing societies: a comparative introduction
- Author:
- TIMONEN Virpi
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 205p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
This book aims to convince readers that ageing is not boring, threatening or depressing, but that it has enormous relevance for the young and the old alike. The author provides an engaging introduction to the central social, economic and political aspects and impacts of ageing and makes the case for the importance of analysing ageing from a number of different perspectives. Using comparative international data, the author provides a detailed description of the process of population ageing, including increasing longevity, changes in fertility and variations in the health status of older populations. In addition, the book sets out the social context and background of ageing, discussing related and relevant developments.