Enhancing Linkages Between Formal Services and the Informal Support Systems of the Elderly

1985 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane E. Clayton ◽  
Vicki L. Schmall ◽  
Clara C. Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Support Systems ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Formal Services

Child care needs of parents in paid work: An interpretation of findings from Australia's Welfare 1993: Services and Assistance

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-13
Author(s):  
Graeme Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Paid Employment ◽  
Formal Services ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Australian Bureau Of Statistics ◽  
High Level

The extent to which the child care needs of parents in paid employment are adequately met is an important matter. This paper examines the issue using data published in the recent report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia's Welfare 1993: Services and Assistance. Data from recent surveys by the Australian Bureau of Statistics are used to supplement the report's findings.While families with both parents or the sole parent in paid employment are the major users of formal child care services many of them continue to experience difficulties in obtaining child care that meets their needs. Many of these families need to arrange their domestic and working lives to care for children within the family or rely on informal support by other family members, friends and neighbours. Many adopt a mix of strategies-formal services, informal support and flexible work arrangements-to meet their child care needs. These families show a high level of unmet demand for formal services; mothers in these families experience difficulties in balancing the competing demands of caring for children and paid employment.

Informal Support Resources for Vulnerable Elderly Persons: Can They Be Counted on, Why Do They Work?

1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
John N. Morris ◽  
Sylvia Sherwood
Keyword(s):  
Support Systems ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Knowledge Network ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Informal System ◽  
Active Communication ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Future 2 ◽  
Vulnerable Elderly

The issue of informal support system resiliency is analyzed for approximately 700 vulnerable elderly persons in a variety of communities (e.g., urban age-segregated housing, ethnic urban age-integrated community, rural age-integrated, etc.). These samples, while geographically specific, are diverse, and a case can be made for generalizing the conclusions originating in this study to the larger population of vulnerable elderly persons in this country. There is a reexamination of the following questions: 1) Do informal support systems generally exist for vulnerable elderly persons; 2) Are significant levels of help being given by these helpers? An examination is also made of the following questions: 1) Can we depend upon these informal systems to continue to provide care now being given, and to respond to new needs that may arise in the future; 2) How is this helping behavior initiated? Within this study, the vulnerable elderly persons were generally found to have informal support systems characterized by active communication. The central role of the informal system is the transmittal of knowledge. Network members pick up information about the individual in regular ongoing communication of a noninstrumental character, interpret this information, act in ways that are responsive to the individual's needs, and are generally prepared to continue to act as new needs arise.

Informal Support Systems for Pregnant Teenagers

1989 ◽  
Vol 70 (9) ◽  
pp. 525-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann G. Bergman
Keyword(s):  
Support Systems ◽  
Informal Support

The influence of formal and informal support systems on the labour supply of divorced mothers

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Raeymaeckers ◽  
Caroline Dewilde ◽  
Laurent Snoeckx ◽  
Dimitri Mortelmans
Keyword(s):  
Labour Supply ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Informal Support

The role of informal support systems in residential environments for low-income older renters: an exploratory study

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Kathleen R. Parrott ◽  
Sung-Jin Lee ◽  
Daejin Kim ◽  
Sheryl Renee Robinson ◽  
Valerie L. Giddings
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Residential Environments

Management of Moral Knowledge and Ethical Processes in Organizations

2011 ◽  
pp. 199-214
Author(s):  
Agata Kostrzewa ◽  
Mikael Laaksoharju ◽  
Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Moral Knowledge ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Organizational Processes ◽  
Organizational Functioning ◽  
Ethical Skills ◽  
Time Point

Moral knowledge is necessary for organizational functioning in order to get legitimacy and increase profits. Given Blackler’s assumptions about organizations, the authors discuss managing moral knowledge in organizations as a set of organizational processes with a time point and in a certain environment. They argue that to become ethically competent, organizations have to combine individuals and organizational ethical skills. Instead of on what is supposed to be done, the authors focus on what is done: interactions within the organization and with its environment, structured by practical routines, bearing main responsibility for transferring moral knowledge. The means facilitating this are organizational roles and structures, trainings, formal and informal support systems along with rules and guidelines. Further, the authors suggest two tools to assist managing moral knowledge: Ethical Index ETHIX (questionnaire to describe how ethical issues are handled in the organization) and the IT system ETHXPERT (supports and structures the process o ethical decision making).

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