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A comparative analysis of personalisation: balancing an ethic of care with user empowerment
- Author:
- RUMMERY Kirstein
- Journal article citation:
- Ethics and Social Welfare, 5(2), June 2011, pp.138-152.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
Modern developments in care and support delivery for disabled and older people have led to the expansion of personalisation schemes, where money is paid in substitute for care and support. Although the schemes have been evaluated within their own national contexts, little work has been done so far to explore the theoretical implications of their development and extension, particularly from an ethics of care perspective. This paper fills that gap by drawing on comparative evidence from several schemes across different nations to develop an analysis which draws on feminist theory and an ethics of care approach to examine: the gendered policy outcomes and impact of such schemes; a feminist analysis of the governance implications of personalisation; the implications for the gendered division of work, particularly between paid and unpaid care work and between different groups of paid and unpaid carers; an ethics of care analysis of the impact of personalisation over the lifecourse of disabled and older people, and carers; and a discussion of the relationship between commodification, empowerment, citizenship and choice drawing on the work of care ethicists.
Dignity and older Europeans: comparative analysis of data from older people's focus groups from all centres
- Author:
- TADD Win
- Publisher:
- Dignity and Older Europeans Consortium
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
The findings of focus groups of older people carried out in six countries to explore how older people view human dignity in their lives, and how factors such as age, social and economic aspects, and health and illness are compared. The countries involved in the study were the UK, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Slovakia and France.
Dignity and older Europeans: report of focus groups of young and middle-aged adults: partner 6: University of Linkoping, Sweden
- Author:
- NORDENFELT Lennart
- Publisher:
- Dignity and Older Europeans Consortium
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 70p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
The right to, and the need for dignity is frequently cited in policy documents relating to the health and social care of older people. It is also expressed as an important value in professional codes and declarations of human rights. Yet concerns about the standards of care for a growing number of older people abound despite global ageing being a well-recognised Dignity and Older Europeans is an international research project which brings together a range of academics, clinicians, and user groups to explore the concept of dignity in the lives of Older Europeans. The project spanned 3 years until December 2004 and involved 8 partners from 6 European countries including UK, France, Ireland, Spain, Sweden and Slovakia. The project was co-ordinated by Dr Win Tadd, Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff.
Dignity and older Europeans: final report of focus groups of Swedish professionals
- Author:
- NORDENFELT Lennart
- Publisher:
- Dignity and Older Europeans Consortium
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 64p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Dignity is often cited in policies and papers relating to older people, yet there is little evidence regarding what dignity means in practice or how it may be best promoted in health and social care. The Dignity and Older Europeans Project explored these issues with older people and care professionals in a cross-national study. Dignity was seen as a highly relevant and important concept, enhancing self-esteem, self-worth and wellbeing. In general the participants found it easier to identify situations when dignity was lacking than to identify times when it was present or what it meant. For the dignity of older people to be enhanced, person-centred care must address communication issues, privacy, personal identity and feelings of vulnerability. In particular, there is a need for education of all health and social professionals to better appreciate what dignity means and for policies that promote greater dignity for all older people in society.
Dignity and older Europeans: final report of focus groups of Swedish older people
- Author:
- NORDENFELT Lennart
- Publisher:
- Dignity and Older Europeans Consortium
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Dignity and Older Europeans is an international research project which brings together a range of academics, clinicians, and user groups to explore the concept of dignity in the lives of Older Europeans. The project spanned 3 years until December 2004 and involved 8 partners from 6 European countries including UK, France, Ireland, Spain, Sweden and Slovakia The right to, and the need for dignity is frequently cited in policy documents relating to the health and social care of older people. It is also expressed as an important value in professional codes and declarations of human rights. Yet concerns about the standards of care for a growing number of older people abound despite global ageing being a well-recognised phenomenon. Dignity is a complex concept that is difficult to define. If today’s, as well as tomorrow’s older people are to experience dignity in health and social care, as well as in other aspects of their lives, then these complexities need to be clarified.
Dignity work in dementia care: sketching a microethical analysis
- Authors:
- ORULV Linda, NIKKU Nina
- Journal article citation:
- Dementia: the International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 6(4), November 2007, pp.507-525.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This study is concerned with issues of dignity in dementia care, in situations where staff members handle potential or actual conflicts and interaction problems between residents. Based on empirical data consisting of observations and video recordings in a residential facility for older people in Sweden, various coping strategies are identified in regard to whether or not, as well as when and how to interfere. Microethical analysis is used in order to discuss these coping strategies in relation to contextual conditions and ways of understanding, and values or aspects of dignity are highlighted. In dialogue with empirical data, nuances of ethical considerations are approached that are otherwise difficult to access analytically - thereby opening the door to a more reflective way of dealing with problematic situations in dementia care.
Ethical issues arising from a research, technology and development project to support frail older people and their family carers at home
- Authors:
- MAGNUSSON Lennart, HANSON Elizabeth Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 11(5), September 2003, pp.431-439.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Provides an overview of the application of key ethical issues which arose in an EU-funded research, technology and development project, Assisting Carers using Telematics Interventions to meet Older Persons' Needs (ACTION), whose primary aim was to support frail older people and family carers in their own homes across England, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Sweden and Portugal via the use of user-friendly information and communication technology. Ethical guidelines were developed and used as a tool to enable the multidisciplinary project team to increase their awareness of ethical issues in their everyday work and act as a useful ethical framework for regular team discussions at international and local meetings across the partner countries. A range of ethical issues arose during the field-study phases when the ACTION services were introduced into a number of families' own homes. It can be argued that these reflect factors relating both to the application of research into practice as well as those relating more directly to the use of new technology by families and care professionals. Key issues centre on ethical concepts of autonomy, independence, quality of life, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice, and more specifically on issues of security, privacy and confidentiality, increased expectations, and service withdrawal. This paper is intended to facilitate dialogue and debate in the area of enabling (assistive) technology in home care for older people and their families.
Ethical discussion groups as an intervention to improve the climate in interprofessional work with the elderly and disabled
- Authors:
- FORSGARDE Marianne, WESTMAN Berith, NYGREN Lennart
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 14(4), November 2000, pp.351-361.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Due to social policy reforms in Sweden, professionals with a social and a medical education work together. Reported conflicts within municipal elderly and disabled care, related to professional training, sometimes result in a deteriorated work climate. As an attempt to improve the work climate in interprofessional groups, an intervention study was set up in four 'experimental dwellings' where staff participated in systematic ethical group discussions. Work climate was studied before and after the intervention using a questionnaire measuring sense of coherence, job satisfaction, and burnout among the staff. The small observed changes after intervention indicate that the intervention did not lead to the expected improvement of work climate, but might also result from the chosen scales inability to measure complex social processes. The importance of interprofessional discussions about everyday skills and values is stressed.
Vad ar vald?
- Author:
- AKERSTROM Malin
- Journal article citation:
- Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid, 17(4), 1997, pp.210-213.
- Publisher:
- Universitetsforlaget AS
Illustrates how anomalies such as "the fighting old" in nursing homes can help to problematise the perception of what constitutes violence, victims and criminals.