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Between endless needs and limited resources: the gendered construction of a greedy organization
- Author:
- RASMUSSEN Bente
- Journal article citation:
- Gender, Work and Organization, 11(5), September 2004, pp.506-525.
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
One of the strategies of the modernization of public services is the decentralization of responsibilities and organizing work in autonomous co- operative teams with varied tasks. The empowerment of the public service workers in the front line is therefore a strategy in local government in Norway today. Under the assumption that women have 'natural' skills in caring, workers on the lowest levels are given responsibility for care and nursing. A study of the decentralization of public care for the elderly in their homes showed that being given interesting tasks and increased responsibility mobilized the efforts of the care workers. However, since the power of resources has been centralized, this has led to an intensification of work. In gendering the relevant discourses by explaining women's experiences of an over-heavy workload as a result of their 'mothering' and their inability to set limits, women care workers were constructed by their managers as unprofessional and not to be taken seriously. This has made the public care organization a greedy organization for the women care workers.
In defence of care: the importance of care as a positive concept
- Author:
- RONNING Rolf
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 3(4), December 2002, pp.34-43.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This article is about the implications of the different uses of the concept of care in the research and debate on home care. A distinction is made between care as an ideal and as practice. The article tries to demonstrate how the outcome of caring can be seen as a result both of political attitudes and of different forms of organisation.
EFORTT: ethical frameworks for telecare technologies for older people at home: final research report
- Author:
- LANCASTER UNIVERSITY
- Publisher:
- Lancaster University
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- Lancaster
EFORTT (Ethical Frameworks for Telecare technologies for older people at home) is an EU funded project which aimed to examine the ethical, social and gender implications of telecare interventions (remote care technologies worn, installed or embedded in homes) for older citizens in Spain, England, Norway and the Netherlands. The project involved the use of fieldwork (including documentary analysis, practice observations, and interviews with users, carers and practitioners) to gather information about preventive and responsive remote care practices, and recruitment of citizens' panels of older people and carers in each of the 4 partner countries as forums for views on telecare and future directions of care. Analysis of findings from the research was used to identify key themes and issues to inform discussion at the September 2010 Ageing with Technologies participative conference on care in Europe for practitioners, users, carers, policy makers and academics, the concluding session of which brought together proposals and priorities for future action on telecare which emerged from the discussions. This report describes the context and main findings of the research and its implications for policy and practice. The recommendations for ethical telecare development include providing care at home that is meaningful, sufficient and dignified, and ensuring engagement of older people in designing, developing and decision making about care.
Social protection for dependency in old age: a study of the fifteen EU member states and Norway
- Authors:
- PACOLET Jozef, et al
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 337p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
This book explores the results of a European comparative study organized in 1997–98 by the Higher Institute for Labour Studies on behalf of the European Commission and the Belgian government. The study investigated the social protection arrangements for the elderly in the fifteen member states of the EU and Norway. In addition to providing an up-to-date overview of the systems of social protection for the elderly across the fifteen EU states, this book also presents a comparative analysis of the residential, semi-residential and community services available. The study is complemented by a discussion of the debates surrounding policy reform of the social protection system of dependent older persons, and particular attention is given to the topic of long-term care insurance.