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The impact of crisis and austerity on long term care for older people in Portugal - an analysis based on the experiences of social workers in private institutions for social solidarity
- Authors:
- ALMEIDA Vasco, BARATA Maria Joao, DANIEL Fernanda
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Service Research, 48(1), 2022, pp.108-119.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In Portugal, long-term care (LTC) for older people rests mainly upon Private Institutions for Social Solidarity (IPSS). The debt crisis of 2008-2013 and the austerity policies that followed had a considerable impact on all sectors of the country’s economy and social services. How did this crisis and austerity impact long-term care for older people? This study approaches this question with qualitative research using content analysis, based on individual interviews of a geographically convenient sample (N = 20) with social work staff of IPSS providing social responses of LTC for older people (1 full-time social work staff per each institution), located at the Center Region of Portugal. The main themes revealed by the analyzis were: financing, human resources, partnerships and quality. The results show a strong impact at the level of financing, yet, a correspondent lower impact on the quality of the services. Also, some dynamics of innovation appear in issues of partnerships and human resources. Although the results and discussion are limited to a specific historical and geographical context, upon further research, they can be considered as implications of crisis and austerity on older people’s social services more broadly, and a reference point to compare with future social policies. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social policy review 9
- Editors:
- MAY Margaret, BRUNSDON Edward, CRAIG Gary
- Publisher:
- Social Policy Association
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 380p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Post general election edition including many of the concerns raised in the 1997 election campaign. Section 1 looks at current welfare policy and provision in Britain and section 2 examines international developments. Includes papers on: social policy under the Major governments; welfare to work; towards a learning society or towards 'learningfare'; the Family Law Act 1996; charging for community care; funding long-term care; issues facing the social services workforce; the experience of black workers in the social care workforce; the new boundaries of health and welfare in collaborative care; quality services in quasi markets; the relationship between social policy, its producers and consumers; the future of the welfare state; comparing welfare states; family-state boundaries in Europe; familism and selectivism in community care for the elderly - a comparison of the Republic of Ireland and the UK; social policy in Portugal; the welfare state and the Spanish socialists; and East Asian social policy.