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The implementation of elder-care in France and Sweden: a macro and micro perspective
- Authors:
- JÖNSSON Ingrid, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 31(4), May 2011, pp.625-644.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This paper presents results from a comparative project in France and Sweden to study access to social care when older persons become dependent. The aim of the study was to study the entrance into dependence as a process, looking at how the need of help and support over time is attended to and by whom. The paper starts with an overview of elder-care at the institutional level in the 2 countries. The study comprised interviews with older people in each country: 10 single people and 6 couples in Sweden; and 12 singles, 7 couples, and 2 sisters living together in France. Interviews were also held with a small number of administrators and adult children. The focus was to identify ways of co-operation between actors, such as public eldercare providers, family members, and help provided by profit and non-profit organisations. The results shed light on how policies are implemented on the local level and put the focus on who actually does what and when for older persons with care needs. The different roles played by the state, the family, the market and civil society are examined. Family members in France take on a more active role both as co-ordinators of care and as actual caregivers. The study shows that gender and social class remain associated with caring but that such differences are much larger in France than in Sweden.
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.
Social policy review 10
- Editors:
- BRUNSDON Edward, HARTLEY Dean, WOODS Roberta
- Publisher:
- Social Policy Association
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 304.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of essays on social policy divided into two sections: developments in British welfare under New Labour; and international developments.