WELFARE STATE IDEOLOGIES AND LONG-TERM CARE REGIMES: CHALLENGES OF WORKING AGE CARERS WITH DEPENDENT RELATIVES IN MACEDONIA

2017 ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Maja Gerovska Mitev ◽  
Suzana Bornarova
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Care Regimes

Quality in long-term care homes for people with dementia: an assessment of specialist provision

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIOBHAN REILLY ◽  
MICHELE ABENDSTERN ◽  
JANE HUGHES ◽  
DAVID CHALLIS ◽  
DAN VENABLES ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
North West ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
National Service Framework ◽  
Specialist Services ◽  
Care Regimes

There has been debate for some years as to whether the best model of care for people with dementia emphasises specialist facilities or integrated service provision. Although the United Kingdom National Service Framework for Older People recommended that local authority social services departments encourage the development of specialist residential care for people with dementia, uncertainty continues as to the benefits of particular care regimes, partly because research evidence is limited. This paper examines a large number of ‘performance measures’ from long-term care facilities in North West England that have residents with dementia. Of the 287 in the survey, 56 per cent described themselves as specialist services for elderly people with mental ill-health problems (known familiarly as ‘EMI homes’). It was envisaged that EMI homes would score higher than non-EMI homes on several measures of service quality for people with dementia that were developed from research evidence and policy documents. The analysis, however, found that EMI homes performed better than non-EMI homes on only a few measures. While both home types achieved good results on some standards, on others both performed poorly. Overall, EMI and non-EMI homes offered a similar service.

Formal and informal long term care work: policy conflict in a liberal welfare state

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 134-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Murphy ◽  
Thomas Turner
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Informal Care ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Formal Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Informal Carers

Purpose The undervaluing of care work, whether conducted informally or formally, has long been subject to debate. While much discussion, and indeed reform has centred on childcare, there is a growing need, particularly in countries with ageing populations, to examine how long-term care (LTC) work is valued. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the way in which employment policies (female labour market participation, retirement age, and precarious work) and social policies (care entitlements and benefits/leave for carers) affect both informal carers and formal care workers in a liberal welfare state with a rapidly ageing population. Design/methodology/approach Drawing the adult worker model the authors use the existing literature on ageing care and employment to examine the approach of a liberal welfare state to care work focusing on both supports for informal carers and job quality in the formal care sector. Findings The research suggests that employment policies advocating increased labour participation, delaying retirement and treating informal care as a form of welfare are at odds with LTC strategies which encourage informal care. Furthermore, the latter policy acts to devalue formal care roles in an economic sense and potentially discourages workers from entering the formal care sector. Originality/value To date research investigating the interplay between employment and LTC policies has focused on either informal or formal care workers. In combining both aspects, we view informal and formal care workers as complementary, interdependent agents in the care process. This underlines the need to develop social policy regarding care and employment which encompasses the needs of each group concurrently.

scholarly journals Long-Term Care and Gender Equality: Fuzzy-Set Ideal Types of Care Regimes in Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 92-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Attila Bartha ◽  
Violetta Zentai
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Fuzzy Set ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Intergenerational Ties ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Care Regimes

Recent changes in the organization of long-term care have had controversial effects on gender inequality in Europe. In response to the challenges of ageing populations, almost all countries have adopted reform measures to secure the increasing resource needs for care, to ensure care services by different providers, to regulate the quality of services, and overall to recalibrate the work-life balance for men and women. These reforms are embedded in different family ideals of intergenerational ties and dependencies, divisions of responsibilities between state, market, family, and community actors, and backed by wider societal support to families to care for their elderly and disabled members. This article disentangles the different components of the notion of ‘(de)familialization’ which has become a crucial concept of care scholarship. We use a fuzzy-set ideal type analysis to investigate care policies and work-family reconciliation policies shaping long-term care regimes. We are making steps to reveal aggregate gender equality impacts of intermingling policy dynamics and also to relate the analysis to migrant care work effects. The results are explained in a four-pronged ideal type scheme to which European countries belong. While only Nordic and some West European continental countries are close to the double earner, supported carer ideal type, positive outliers prove that transformative gender relations in care can be construed not only in the richest and most generous welfare countries in Europe.

scholarly journals Development of communication robot production PBL teaching materials related to dementia care

Impact ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-27
Author(s):  
Toshihiko Ando
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Care ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Industrialised Countries

Ageing populations in industrialised countries and a growing proportion of working age individuals is placing a burden on care workers. It is important that countries adapt in order to increase the quantity and quality of care and better integrate the aged into society, including fostering cross-generational interactions. Japan is one of the countries leading the way in this area and Associate Professor Toshihiko Ando, Department of General Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Sendai College, Japan, is a researcher who is developing novel tools for enhancing elderly care. With a background in computing and electrical engineering and these fields' interactions with humans, Ando is looking at how robotics can be applied to elderly care. The goal is to support long-term care in order to enable elderly people to remain active and the burden on caregivers is reduced. Ando is also using his work as a mechanism for involving non-care specialists, including students, in the field of long-term care. This includes the use of teaching materials and visits to care facilities. Ando and his students have developed basic robots that can help with general tasks and they are interested in examining how elderly care patients respond to the presence of robots.

Farewell to old legacies? The introduction of long-term care insurance in South Korea

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 871-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIN WOOK KIM ◽  
YOUNG JUN CHOI
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The State ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Long Term Care Insurance

ABSTRACTSouth Korea has been experiencing unprecedented socio-economic transformations in which an ageing population is widely regarded as a key challenge. As an unlikely consensus on state intervention in care has emerged since early 2000, South Korea has achieved rapid development of welfare state programmes. The introduction of long-term care insurance (LTCI) in 2008 is one of the important steps. However, it is still highly debatable whether the Korean welfare state has departed from its path of both developmentalism and Confucianism. This paper aims to analyse the nature of LTCI in South Korea and to examine whether its introduction could mean a divergence from these two important policy legacies. This research has reached an ambiguous conclusion. The regulatory role of the government and concerns about the costs of LTCI are regarded as a developmentalist legacy, whereas Confucian legacies seem to be withering away since LTCI shifts care responsibility from the family to the state. However, the study found that the state has difficulty in regulating the market and costs, and deeply embedded familialism seems difficult to overcome.

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