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Let people loose
- Author:
- LLOYD Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.10.06, 2006, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article provides a comparison of older care in Finland and the UK, based on a study visit by staff from Kent Community Housing Trust to the combined health and social services department in the Espoo region. The article concentrates on lessons to be learned for older care – particularly residential – in the UK. It focuses on the benefits of nursing and social care combined services, contrasting Finland’s guiding principle that “regulation stifles the soul” in older care, with the UK approach of overregulation.
Mot en ny institutionsvardag. (Towards a new everyday life in institutions.)
- Author:
- VILJARANTA Liisa
- Journal article citation:
- Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid, 13(4), 1993, pp.19-27.
- Publisher:
- Universitetsforlaget AS
Describes a development project carried out in some institutions for the elderly in Finland. The project lasted almost three years, with the aim of changing the everyday life of the institution so that there would be greater scope for self-determination and participation for the older people. All the employees, from the superintendent to the caretaker, took part in the development and the associated group work, which was the most important working form used by the project.
Let's blur the divide that's between staff and residents
- Authors:
- KOTALA Pirjo, SIUKOLA Katri
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 9(6), November 2001, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Describe a group of small homes for people with dementia in Finland which involve residents in every aspect of their running.
Returning home from residential care? Patient preferences and their determinants
- Authors:
- NORO Anja, ARO Seppo
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 17(3), May 1997, pp.305-321.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Discusses the results of a study to discover what fairly independent residents living in long-term residential care think about home care as an alternative. A stratified systematic sample was drawn from a one-day census of patients in all residential homes in Finland in 1991 and 1992. Respondents who preferred home care were compared with respondents preferring residential care according to length of stay, health, functional ability and health-related quality of life.
The graying of the world: who will care for the frail elderly?
- Editor:
- OLSON Laura Katz
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 345p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
Comparative study of policies for older people in 11 countries. Countries covered include Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Israel, Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States and Yugoslavia.
Is home care a realistic alternative to residential care among institutionalized elderly people in Finland?
- Authors:
- NORO A., ARO S.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 5(4), October 1996, pp.249-258.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
The high rate of institutionalisation among elderly people in Finland is widely among policy-makers. Studies how realistic the wishes for deinstitutionalisation are among the least sick elderly people in residential care, and what patient characteristics predict whether residential care is appropriate. This issue was assessed by the residential home personnel. Personnel assessment of institutional care as appropriate was mainly explained by patients' needing help with medication, limitations in activities of daily living, absence of own home return to, no living children, incontinence, and poor vision. Discharging elderly people from long-term residential care back to society is limited by factors such as inadequate housing and shortage of domiciliary care and rehabilitative services, as well as by attitudes among the institutionalised elderly people themselves. It seems more realistic to prevent the inappropriate institutionalisation of elderly people that to discharge the small numbers of fairly independent individuals already in residential homes.
Caring for older Europeans: comparative studies in 29 countries
- Author:
- GIARCHI George Giacinto
- Publisher:
- Arena
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 547p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Provides a reference source for various modes of care (both formal and informal) for older people throughout Europe. Each chapter follows the same format and covers: demography; socio-political and administrative background; social security and pensions; housing; health care; mental health care; residential care; personal social services; voluntary care agencies and support organisations; leisure pursuits and education; and older people in rural areas.