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Family commitments under negotiation: dual carers in Finland and Italy
- Author:
- ZECHNER Minna
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 38(6), December 2004, pp.640-653.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper makes a comparison between Finnish and Italian working dual carers. Dual carers have responsibilities simultaneously at two different fronts. The selected Finnish and Italian samples of carers are doing similar care work in different settings. They negotiate care with a variety of actors and under differing circumstances. A care life story has been constructed for each participant. Then these care life stories have been compared with each other, especially at points where the need for negotiation has been evident, at life's various turning points. There are many individual similarities in negotiations performed in Finland and in Italy. However, their divergent contexts create considerable variation.
Day care: old and young together
- Author:
- SEPPANEN Riitta
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 6(2), March 1998, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Reports on a project in Finland which has found that day care for older people and older people with dementia in a care worker's own home has many benefits.
To work or to care? Working women's decision-making
- Author:
- JOLANKI Outi
- Journal article citation:
- Community Work and Family, 18(3), 2015, pp.268-283.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Recent changes in older people's public care services in Nordic countries, in particular in Finland and Sweden, are based on implicit expectations that family members will increase their involvement in care. This study addressed the question of how Finnish working women who give care to their older parents argue for and against their decisions of working and caring and the meaning of work and care in these decisions. The data comprise 48 interviews with Finnish women, most of whom gave care to older parents. Majority of the interviewees emphasised the importance of work and refuted the idea of leaving work for care. The decision not to leave work for care was justified with worker identity, commitment to work, having no innate skills to be a carer, availability of support services and other carers and financial necessity. On the other hand, a few interviewees brought forward their willingness to leave work which was justified by constructing care as meaningful and valuable activity as opposed to meaningless paid employment, and with the intensification of work, and with ageing. Lengthy argumentation and several discursive tools indicate that women anticipated moral blame for the decision of giving work primacy over care, but also for leaving work. Thus, working carers balance between contrasting expectations to care and to work. (Edited publisher abstract)
Combining paid work and family care: policies and experiences in international perspective
- Authors:
- KROGER Teppo, YEANDLE Sue
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 256
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time, both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and care has previously focused mostly on childcare. Combining paid work and family care widens the debate, bringing into discussion the experiences of those providing support to their partners, older relatives and disabled or seriously ill children. The book analyses the situations of these working carers in Nordic, liberal and East Asian welfare systems. Highlighting what can be learned from individual experiences, the book analyses the changing welfare and labour market policies which shape the lives of working carers in Finland, Sweden, Australia, England, Japan and Taiwan. The book is arranged in three parts: working carers of older people; working parent-carers of disabled children; and working partner-carers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Payments for care: a comparative overview
- Editors:
- EVERS Adalbert, PIJL Marja, UNGERSON Clare
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 358p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Presents a collection of papers looking at how payments for care schemes are developing across Western and Central Europe, the United States and Canada. Includes discussions of payments to 'volunteers', and consideration of the way in which social security and tax systems work to increase the incomes of care recipients and their carers. Also includes introductory chapters discussing general and theoretical issues involved in the development of systems of payments for care including the labour market, empowerment and the relationship between carers and care recipients.
Women, the elderly and social policy in Finland and Japan: the muse or the worker bee?
- Editors:
- KOSKIAHO Briita, MAKINEN Paula, PATTINIEMI Maija-Liisa
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 209p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
A collection of papers looking at the role of women in Finnish and Japanese society and how changes in the economy and in social policy have affected them. Issues discussed include: women and the family; changes in women's employment; standard of living and services to the female elderly.