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Defining responsibility for care: approaches to care of older people in six European countries
- Author:
- BLACKMAN Tim
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 9(3), July 2000, pp.181-190.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article examines the social care of older people in six contrasting European countries. Family, institutional and community care are compared, focusing on vulnerability, empowerment and the gatekeeping of resources. The article considers the position of older people in each care system by presenting individual case studies. The six countries include the family-oriented systems of Ireland, Italy and Greece, and the individual-oriented systems of Denmark, Norway and England. Overall, the different levels of provision of organised social care services are a major aspect of inequality within and between the countries. Whilst there is little prospect for any major policy transfer across national boundaries, there is potential for selective cross-national learning with regard to particular service developments.
Social welfare, housing and health policy and the determinants of quality of life for older people in the Republic of Ireland
- Authors:
- HODGINS Margaret, MCKENNA Verna
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, 11(2), June 2010, pp.19-28.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Commenting that improving quality of life for older people calls for public policy initiatives that have a positive impact on the determinants of quality of life, this paper reviews current social welfare, health and housing policy in Ireland with regard to provisions for older people and the policy portfolios that are of particular relevance to the determinants of quality-of-life identified in the literature. It covers social welfare policy and older people, housing policy and older people, housing maintenance and comfort, provision of social housing, health policy and older people, and health service delivery policy. The authors conclude that the absence of a rights-based approach in policy-making is evident in welfare, housing and health policy, and that, if older people are to be involved in the policy-making process, greater openness is required at all levels of society about older people’s rights, and capacity building needs to be undertaken among older people themselves.
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.
European social work curriculum material: a guide to EC literature and organisations
- Authors:
- GAMPELL Lucy, POTTER William, MUNDAY Brian
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. European Institute of Social Services
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 180p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Bibliography focusing on documents from the 12 EC member states relating to: social welfare policy; general social work policy and practice; and specific areas of social services client-based work. It does not include items on: poverty; social security; homelessness; travellers; and migrants.
The European directory of older age: information and organisations concerned with older people in the 12 EC member states
- Editor:
- CROSBY Gillian
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 445p.
- Place of publication:
- London