scholarly journals Delegating Home Care for the Elderly to External Caregivers? An Empirical Study on Italian Data

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Lippi Bruni ◽  
Cristina Ugolini
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Home Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care For The Elderly

The economics of home care for the elderly

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-103
Author(s):  
C. Bielawska ◽  
G.S. Rai
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care For The Elderly

scholarly journals Experiences with the privatization of home care: evidence from Denmark

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Fersch ◽  
Per H Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Financial Responsibility ◽  
Care For The Elderly

Processes of privatization in home care for the elderly in Denmark have primarily taken the form of outsourcing public-care provisions. The content and quality of services have in principle remained the same, but the providers of services have changed. The welfare state has continued to bear the major responsibility for the provision of elderly care, while outsourcing has allowed clients to choose between public and private providers of care. The major aim of outsourcing has been to empower the frail elderly by providing them with exit-opportunities through a construction of this group as consumers of welfare-state provisions. The central government in Denmark has produced the public-service reform, but the municipalities bear the administrative and financial responsibility for care for the elderly. Further, national policymakers have decided that local authorities (municipalities) must provide to individuals requiring care the opportunities to choose. With this background in mind, this article analyses how national, top-down ideas and the ‘politics of choice' have created tensions locally in the form of municipal resistance and blockages. The article draws on case studies in two Danish municipalities, whereby central politicians and administrative leaders have been interviewed. We have identified four areas of tensions: 1) those between liberal and libertarian ideas and values versus local political orientations and practices; 2) new tensions and lines of demarcation among political actors, where old political conflicts no longer holds; 3) tensions between promises and actual delivery, due to insufficient control of private contractors; and 4) those between market principles and the professional ethics of care providers.

Home care for the elderly: the role of relatives, friends and neighbors

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriaan Kalwij ◽  
Giacomo Pasini ◽  
Mingqin Wu
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care For The Elderly

scholarly journals Demographic Transition and Home Care for the Elderly in Bangladesh: An Urban Rural Comparison

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 334-345
Author(s):  
Mohammad Abdul Hannan Pradhan ◽  
Sadika Akthar ◽  
Md. Gias Uddin Khan ◽  
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Demographic Transition ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Urban Rural
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