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The politics of care for elderly people in Scandinavia
- Author:
- JAKOBSSON Gunborg
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 1(1), March 1998, pp.87-93.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes the issues currently impacting on the social welfare system in Scandinavia, especially as they affect older people.
The impact of the use of the social welfare services or social security benefits on attitudes to social welfare policies
- Author:
- MUURI Anu
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 19(2), April 2010, pp.182-193.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article investigates the attitudes of citizens and clients to social welfare services and social security benefits in Finland. The article starts by overviewing the previous welfare-state studies relating especially to the theoretical perspectives of self-interest and legitimacy. This is followed by empirical analysis of data from a Finnish national survey entitled ‘Welfare and Services in Finland’ conducted at the end of 2006, measuring responses to questions on attitudes to social welfare services and to social security benefits. This results indicated: that a different operation of self-interest can only weakly explain the differences in attitudes between services and benefits; that there is general support for Finnish social welfare services and social security benefits, which, however, is mixed with growing criticism among women and pensioners who are supposed to benefit most from the welfare policies; and that such determinants of attitude as gender, use and, to some extent, lifecycle have become as important as class-related factors such as income and education.
Minority elderly care in Europe: country profiles
- Editors:
- PATEL Naina, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 232p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Researchers in ten countries (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the UK) examine 27 minority groups over a three-year period, looking at social and welfare structures, health, employment and living conditions. This project is the first venture to begin compiling information on minority elders on such a scale. While the experiences of each country are distinct, there are undoubtedly similarities that can be drawn in terms of poor access to housing, lower paid employment and a worse state of health. The project involves minority groups who came from former colonial possessions in the post-war period and those who have arrived more recently, fleeing war and dispossession. It also examines the provision of groups who have known no other homeland yet are endemically discriminated against, such as the Roma.
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.
The young, the old and the state: social care systems in five industrial nations
- Editor:
- ANTTONEN Anneli
- Publisher:
- Edward Elgar
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 206p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cheltenham
This work is a comparative account of social care services for children and older people in five key industrial nations (Finland, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States). The authors move beyond institutional description and seeking to understand the normative and moral qualities of welfare systems. The book builds on existing theories of welfare state regimes by extending the analysis to the arena of social care. A full account is provided of the historical, economic and political origins of childcare and care for older people in each of the five countries. These analyses are then used as the basis for a theoretical account of the developmental trajectories of social care systems. The book proposes that there are common pressures at work in all industrial nations driving their welfare systems to similar forms of organisation and structure. However, these trends are mediated by important differences in culture and history.