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Multi-local and cross-border care loops: comparison of childcare and eldercare policies in Slovenia
- Author:
- HRZENJAK Majda
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 29(5), 2019, pp.640-652.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article provides a comparative analysis of two different care systems, childcare and eldercare, in Slovenia, an Eastern-European post-transition country, with a dual-breadwinner full-time employment regime, a relatively low level of migration and a fast growing share of the 65+ population. The analysis shows that both care systems follow two different kinds of logic of egalitarianism, which means that the national care regime is internally diversified. While care for children is public, universally accessible and defamilialistic, care for the elderly follows the principles of marketization, economy-based inequality in access and familialization. Such policies also have different implications for care mobilities: while childcare demands daily transfers between multi-local sites of care, which remained confined within the state borders, eldercare increasingly demands cross-border care loops. The comparison of both care systems along with the empirical evidence on the presence/absence of migrant care workers in care support the thesis that cross-border care mobilities emerge at points where the state with its policies is failing to adequately meet care needs of the citizens. (Edited publisher abstract)
Relationship difficulties in dementia care: a discursive analysis of two women's accounts
- Author:
- FORBAT Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Dementia: the International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 2(1), February 2003, pp.67-84.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article reports the account given by the mother and how this intersects with the account given by the daughter. The discursive analysis presented centralizes a concern with attending to the accounts of people with dementia. Analysis of the talk of people with dementia can make a valuable contribution to understanding care relationships. Such analysis has the potential for shedding light on difficulties in care relationships.
The influence of socioeconomic and health differences on parents' provision of help to adult children: a British United States comparison
- Authors:
- HENRETTA John C., GRUNDY Emily, HARRIS Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 22(4), July 2002, pp.441-458.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article examines the effects of the socioeconomic and health status on the help that midlife of parents in Britain and the United States give their children with money, domestic tasks and grandchild care. Results showed that there are relatively few differences between Britain and the USA in the factors affecting provision of support. Socioeconomic factors appear to be more important among married respondents while health is more important among unmarried respondents. Children's coresidence has greater effect on the provision of domestic help in Britain than in the United States.
Age consumer direction and outcomes of supportive services at home
- Authors:
- BENJAMIN A.E., MATTHIAS Ruth E.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 41(5), October 2001, pp.632-642.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Supportive services at home are essential for older people with severe chronic impairments. Newer "consumer-directed" models of organising home-based services rely heavily on service recipients rather than home care agencies to arrange and direct care at home. This study examined differences in service experience and outcomes between recipients over the under age 65 who direct their own services in one large medicaid programme in the USA. Findings indicate that although younger recipients embrace self-direction more enthusiastically than older ones, age differences are small on a majority of service outcomes. On average, older users embrace this model and manage within it much like younger users. Some differences emerge between the young-old (65-74) and old-old (75 plus), but these are neither consistent nor determinative. Concludes that old age is far from an inevitable barrier to self-direction. As with other age groups there are opportunities and obstacles to be addressed as this newer approach to home care is disseminated.
'When I get older...'
- Authors:
- HEALY Judith, YARROW Stella
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.11.97, 1997, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks what happens elderly people when they can no longer look after themselves. Many go into residential care, but for others, it's time to move back in with their children. Describes what this really means for everyone involved.
Parents living with children in old age: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Living with children remains an important form of supported accommodation for older people. Yet we know little about how and why this decision is made and whether parents and children find sharing a household satisfactory. Describes an in-depth study of 24 such households by the Policy Studies Institute.
Social care in Europe
- Editors:
- MUNDAY Brian, ELY Peter
- Publisher:
- Prentice Hall
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 247p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of articles looking at the contexts for, and the outcomes of, the diversity of social care provision by the member states of the European Union. The book first addresses how we define social care in Europe and looks at the differences between member states. Goes on to look in more detail at the context for social care provision and the constitutional framework provided by the European Union itself. Further chapters cover Europe's mixed economy of welfare and provide detailed analysis of the impact of social care provision on 3 key clients groups: children and families, disabled people and older people.
Care of the chronically and severely ill: comparative social policies
- Editors:
- HOLLINGSWORTH J. Rogers, HOLLINGSWORTH Ellen Jane
- Publisher:
- Aldine de Gruyter
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 256p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Hawthorne, NY
Contains sections on: care for the frail elderly; care for the homebound under 65; care of people with chronic mental health problems; and coordination of services for severely disabled people.
National minimum standards for domiciliary care agencies in Wales
- Author:
- WALES. National Assembly
- Publisher:
- Wales. National Assembly
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This document sets out the National Minimum Standards for domiciliary care agencies. They form the criteria by which the Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales (“CSIW”) will determine whether the agency provides personal care to the required standard. The purpose of these minimum standards is to ensure the quality of personal care and support which people receive whilst living in their own home in the community. These standards establish the minimum required; i.e. they state a standard of service provision below which an agency providing personal care for people living in their own home must not fall. Whilst broad in scope, these Standards acknowledge the unique and complex needs of individuals and the additional specific knowledge and skills required in order to deliver a service that is tailored to the needs of each person. These Standards will be applied to agencies providing personal care to the wide range of people who need care and support whilst living in their own home, including: older people, people with physical disabilities, people with sensory loss including dual sensory impairment, people with mental health problems, people with learning disabilities, children and their families, and personal or family carers.
The housing timebomb: the housing crisis facing people with a learning disability and their older parents
- Author:
- MENCAP
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
An estimated 29,000 people in England with severe and profound learning disabilities live with parents aged 70 or over. Every year, people with a learning disability have their lives thrown into crisis when they and their parents are no longer able to cope. This report presents a picture of older parents living with the constant fear of where their son or daughter will live when they are unable to care for them or after they die. It estimates that only one in four local authorities are planning to meet their future needs.