scholarly journals Relationship between Family Care and Public Care Services for the Elderly

2015 ◽  
Vol 06 (09) ◽  
pp. 948-953
Author(s):  
Yuko Mihara
Keyword(s):  
Family Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Care Services

scholarly journals Dementia and Migration: Family Care Patterns Merging With Public Care Services

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette Sagbakken ◽  
Ragnhild Storstein Spilker ◽  
Reidun Ingebretsen
Keyword(s):  
Family Care ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Patterns ◽  
And Migration

Managing Work and Care: Does Employing a Live-in Migrant Care Worker Fill the Gap? The Example of Taiwan

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Li-Fang Liang
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Limited Support ◽  
The Government ◽  
Care Worker

This article uses Taiwan as an example to examine how families manage work and care when the government and workplace provide limited support. Many Taiwanese households employ live-in migrant care workers to negotiate care responsibilities and adults’ paid jobs. Based on interviews with employers of live-in migrant care workers and workers, the findings demonstrate that daughters-in-law and occasionally daughters and sons become employers of live-in migrant care workers because of the limitation of public care services and lack of support they receive in seeking to combine paid work and family care responsibility. Even after employing migrant workers, women retain greater care responsibility in daily practices than their husbands. Hiring live-in migrant care workers also imposes risks to all parties involved in the processes of organising, coordinating, and providing care due to the uncertainty of care quality and the nature of care work.

scholarly journals Eldercare policies in Scandinavia between 1993 and 2014: increased facilitation of family caregiving?

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 48-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Thokle Martens
Keyword(s):  
Family Caregiving ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Formal Economy ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Right ◽  
Provision Of Care

Abstract This article asks whether legal rights provided through national legislation on services provision in Scandinavia have become, over time, more accommodating to the role of family caregiving to elderly relatives. The study is based on a comparison and analysis of changes in legislation between 1993 and 2014 in the three Scandinavian countries. It is limited to legislation on the right to eldercare services and on work-family facilitating policies in relation to the provision of care to an elderly relative. Work-family facilitating policies are those policies that enable the combining of employment in the formal economy with caring for family members without large prohibitive costs for the caregiver. The main findings in this article are that the Scandinavian countries strengthened the legal right to public care services between 1993 and 2014, but that there are few, if any, truly work-family facilitating policies. The existing schemes do not facilitate a combination of employment and care, but rather force the family caregiver to choose between them. The dilemma is whether to continue passively with a high, but declining, level of public service provision of eldercare, leaving unmet care needs to unpaid family carers, or to introduce work-family facilitating policies enabling remunerated family care in addition to extensive public services provision.

scholarly journals Influence of socio-economic profile of neighbourhoods on the selection of home care strategies for older dependants

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Albert Julià ◽  
Sandra Escapa ◽  
Pedro Gallo
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Older People ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Network Characteristics ◽  
Private Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Use Of Services

Abstract Care strategies for older dependants are determined by not only individuals or network characteristics, but also contextual factors. The objective of this study is to determine whether urban contexts (neighbourhoods) are linked to the use of family care (informal), public services or private care at home (formal). We applied logistic regression analysis to data from the Survey of People in a Situation of Dependence 2018. The sample was composed of 530 older people (55 years old and over) living in two types of socio-economic groups of neighbourhoods in Barcelona, Spain. The type of neighbourhood is relevant in explaining the home care that older dependants receive. In neighbourhoods with a high socio-economic level, dependants are more likely to use private services and less likely to use informal care services and public services, even after controlling for household income, degree of dependency, sex, age and the number of people in the household. Understanding the factors that determine the use of public care services, private care services or family care-giving is important due to the increment in the number of older people in the population. Our results suggest that differences in urban socio-economic contexts determine some inequalities in the use of services even after controlling for socio-economic individual differences. The characteristics of neighbourhoods should be considered to adjust care policies for older dependants.

O cuidado do idoso em tratamento pré-dialítico: estudo descritivo

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 713
Author(s):  
Caren Da Silva Jacobi ◽  
Margrid Beuter ◽  
Nara Marilene Oliveira Girardon-Perlini ◽  
Arlete Maria Brentanno Timm ◽  
Jamile Laís Bruinsma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Treatment Method ◽  
Dialysis Treatment ◽  
Elderly Individuals ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Care Performance

Aim:  to  describe  the  views  of  relatives  regarding  the  care  services provided for their  elderly  relatives  receiving  pre-dialysis treatment.  Method: this  was  a qualitative-descriptive  study,  with  participants  including  eight  elderly  individuals  and their families who attended a uremia outpatient clinic. Data collection occurred between March and July 2013 at families’ homes and the study used genograms and circular question interviews. To analyze the data, this study used topic content analysis. Results: besides  the  regular  demands  of  aging,  families  need  to  add  pre-dialysis  treatment  to t h ei r  e l d e r l y  r e l at i v e s ’ r o u t i n e s . Th e  p o s s i b i l i t y  o f  d i a l ys i s  f o r c e s  r el a t i v es  t o  c h an g e  their roles and search for other possible solutions to the illness. Discussion: families search for alternatives within both the realm of common sense and in the spiritual world in order to meet the demands of their elderly relatives’ illness. Conclusion: family  care  for  the elderly is fundamental in the fight against renal disease and the dialog between relatives and health professionals can improve care performance.

Future Issues for Family Care of the Elderly in Korea

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunsook Yoon ◽  
Heung-Bong Cha
Keyword(s):  
Family Care ◽  
The Elderly

Care of Elderly Germans Suffering from Dementia and other Diseases in Private Social Welfare Institutions in Poland — A Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-85
Author(s):  
Nicole Horáková ◽  
Jan Kajfosz
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Field Research ◽  
High Standard ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Private Care ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Of Elderly

The European society is getting older and nobody knows how to deal with this problem. There are different models from family care, special housing for elderly to professional institutional care, which has the disadvantage of being very expensive. In Germany we have noticed in the last two or three years a special trend to send old people suffering from dementia to foreign countries, because these people need intensive care and the social services for example in Poland have a high standard. The aim of our survey is to dismantle, by the example of the private care institution situated in Poland, Upper Silesia which specializes on German customers, the social practices associated with placing the elderly in such institutions and also the methods of constructing meanings of these practices providing clarity in the various groups that take part in this process. To reach this aim we used qualitative field research, including discourse and narrative analysis of various materials (interviews, promotional texts, websites), which beside other things allowed us to reconstruct the media image of the surveyed residences for the elderly and show it in a wider context.

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