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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.
Changes in the living arrangements of older women: an international study
- Author:
- WOLF Douglas A.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 35(6), December 1995, pp.724-731.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This study analyses trends in the percentage of older women living alone in 21 European and North America countries over the period of 1960-1992, the general pattern is one of substantial annual increases in the percentage of elderly women living alone. This trend is shown to result mainly from demographic changes, with little evidence of a role for economic variables. The analysis suggests a reversal of the current trend in coming years, as mothers of post-war baby booms reach old age.
To work or to care? Working women's decision-making
- Author:
- JOLANKI Outi
- Journal article citation:
- Community Work and Family, 18(3), 2015, pp.268-283.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Recent changes in older people's public care services in Nordic countries, in particular in Finland and Sweden, are based on implicit expectations that family members will increase their involvement in care. This study addressed the question of how Finnish working women who give care to their older parents argue for and against their decisions of working and caring and the meaning of work and care in these decisions. The data comprise 48 interviews with Finnish women, most of whom gave care to older parents. Majority of the interviewees emphasised the importance of work and refuted the idea of leaving work for care. The decision not to leave work for care was justified with worker identity, commitment to work, having no innate skills to be a carer, availability of support services and other carers and financial necessity. On the other hand, a few interviewees brought forward their willingness to leave work which was justified by constructing care as meaningful and valuable activity as opposed to meaningless paid employment, and with the intensification of work, and with ageing. Lengthy argumentation and several discursive tools indicate that women anticipated moral blame for the decision of giving work primacy over care, but also for leaving work. Thus, working carers balance between contrasting expectations to care and to work. (Edited publisher abstract)
Perpetrators of abuse against older women: a multi-national study in Europe
- Authors:
- DONDER Liesbeth De, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 13(6), 2011, pp.302-314.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Results from part of the prevalence study Abuse and Violence against Older Women in Europe, conducted in Finland, Austria, Belgium, Lithuania and Portugal in 2010, are presented in this paper. The study focused on home-dwelling women aged 60 years or older and included interviews with 2,880 older women. This paper explores the findings concerning perpetrators of abuse among older women living in the community and whether differences between perpetrators of different forms of abuse could be detected. The results showed that 28.1% of older women reported experiencing at least one kind of violence and abuse in their own home in the last 12 months by someone who was close to them. The findings indicated that emotional abuse occurs most often, followed by financial abuse, and that the current partner or spouse most often commits the abuse, but that depending on the type of abuse different perpetrators are more likely. The paper includes tables showing rates of different kinds of abuse and perpetrators of abuse, including types of abuse, levels of severity, and victim characteristics.
Effects of a group-based exercise program on the mood state of frail older women after discharge from hospital
- Authors:
- TIMONEN L., et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 17(12), December 2002, pp.1106-1111.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Older people with somatic illnesses are at increased risk of depression. It is not known whether exercise alleviates depressive symptoms in frail, very old people recuperating from an acute illness. Group-based exercise program organized in the context of a Finnish health care organization improved mood in frail older women recuperating from an acute illness. After the intervention, there was a significant improvement in mood in the intervention group compared to the home exercise control group.
Management, social work and change
- Editors:
- HARLOW Elisabeth, LAWLER John
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 208p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Contains papers on: transitions in welfare provision from Beveridge to best value; the rise of managerialism in social work; managing change in services for older people; changing women's work; equalling the opportunity of a management career; social work in a global context; managing the development of social work in Russia; social work management in Finland; and social work management in Hong Kong.
Abuse of the elderly: services provided for victims in a Finnish Nursing home, 1992-1993
- Author:
- PERTTU Sirkka
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 8(2), 1996, pp.23-31.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Describes the services provided for elder abuse victims in a Finnish nursing home. These services included shelter at the nursing home, a telephone service, and a support group. Results of the study showed the majority of callers and victims were women and the barriers for seeking help in an abuse case were high among the elderly. Recommendations are made for developing the functions of the nursing home and to create services which would prevent domestic violence and help the abused persons free themselves from the abuse and the abusers.
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.
Agency in multiprofessional work: a case study of rehabilitation of an older patient in hospital care
- Author:
- KINNI Riitta-Liisa
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 13(3), 2008, pp.25-47.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
This study examines narratives of the members of a multiprofessional team and an older woman patient in the context of hospital rehabilitation. Methodologically it draws on social constructionism and the membership categorisation device (MCD). The aim is to show how the situational context, the rehabilitation team, and the agency of its members and the patient are constructed in the accounts of the interviewees. The analysis shows that the social order in hospital rehabilitation favours physical, i.e. medical, expertise. Neither the social worker nor the patient were constructed as active agents in the core of multiprofessional working. The context of health care and the 'quest for certainty' challenge social work to find alternative ways of seeing the truths in a patient's life and to negotiate in multiprofessional working.