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Mot en ny institutionsvardag. (Towards a new everyday life in institutions.)
- Author:
- VILJARANTA Liisa
- Journal article citation:
- Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid, 13(4), 1993, pp.19-27.
- Publisher:
- Universitetsforlaget AS
Describes a development project carried out in some institutions for the elderly in Finland. The project lasted almost three years, with the aim of changing the everyday life of the institution so that there would be greater scope for self-determination and participation for the older people. All the employees, from the superintendent to the caretaker, took part in the development and the associated group work, which was the most important working form used by the project.
Participation and citizenship of elderly persons: user experiences from Finland
- Author:
- VALOKIVI Heli
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 39(1/2), 2004, pp.181-207.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In the article the participation of the aged users and their relatives in a local health care and social service system will be discussed. How is their citizenship defined at the grass roots level? The research data were gathered during a case management project of the action research type in a Finnish rural municipality. The data of this study consist of 13 theme interviews: five elderly persons as care receivers and eight caregivers. The research approach is a dialogue between data based analysis and conceptual reasoning. Citizenship rights and obligations and participation should be defined flexibly and individually in the context of the local health care and social services. In the research data the elderly persons and their caregivers described participation in multiple ways. The modes of participation vary from passive and active disengagement from the process to contacting, negotiating, cooperating, and demanding. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Developing quality in personal social services: concepts, cases and comments
- Editors:
- EVERS Adalbert, et al
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 318p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Looks at the challenge of introducing business originated concepts of quality assurance into personal social services. Includes papers on: quality development as part of a changing culture of care in personal social services; business and professional approaches to quality improvement; quality management in Finland; the developing role of user involvement in the UK; professionals and quality initiatives in health and social services; measuring quality in personal social services; combining user interests with professionalism in the organisation; quality management and assurance in residential and nursing home care in Britain and Germany; user centred performance indicators in community care in Scotland; developing domiciliary care markets in Britain; management in public care services; user involvement influencing quality in Denmark; quality in home care and nursing; national and local quality strategies in Finland; and quality measurements and some unintended consequences.