Karen Christensen, Doria Pilling

The Routledge Handbook of Social Care Work Around the World (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides both a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. It is the first handbook to cover care work research from around the world, including both low- and middle-income countries as well as high income countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317043935
• Artikelnr.: 50531381

Autorenporträt

Karen Christensen is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway. Her research and publications focus on welfare sociology based on her interests in social care, work, gender and migration. She has led or collaborated on a range of research projects, nationally and internationally, within areas such as elderly care, welfare and disability, comparative social policy, and the lives of migrant care workers.

Doria Pilling is a sociologist and Honorary senior research fellow at the School of Health Sciences at City, University of London, UK. She has researched and published on a range of areas, including social disadvantage, case management, disability and employment, disability and technology, evaluation of service quality and comparative social policy.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Long-term care services in Norway - a historical sociological
perspective (Karen Christensen and Kari Wærness); Chapter 2: Revisiting the
public care model - the Danish case of free choice in home care (Tine
Rostgaard); Chapter 3: Organizational trends impacting on everyday
realities: the case of Swedish eldercare (Anneli Stranz and Marta
Szebehely); Chapter 4: Long-term care reforms in the Netherlands: care work
at stake (Barbara Da Roit); Chapter 5: The English social care workforce:
the vexed question of low wages and stress (Shereen Hussein); Chapter 6:
The personalization and marketization of home care services for older
people in England (Kate Baxter); Chapter 7: The development of an ambiguous
care work sector in France. Between professionalization and fragmentation
(Blanche Le Bihan and Alis Sopadzhiyan); Chapter 8: Care provision inside
and outside the professional care system: the case of long-term care
insurance in Germany (Hildegard Theobald); Chapter 9: Employing migrant
care workers for 24-hour care in private households in Austria: benefits
and risks for the long-term care system (August Österle); Chapter 10:
Migrant care workers in Italian households: recent trends and future
perspectives (Mirko Di Rosa, Francesco Barbabella, Arianna Poli, Sara
Santini and Giovanni Lamura); Chapter 11: Post-socialist eldercare in the
Czech Republic: institutions, families, and the market (Adéla Souralová and
Eva lesingerová); Chapter 12: Imbalance between demand and supply of
long-term care - the case of post-communist Poland (Stanis¿awa Golinowska
and Agnieszka Sowa-Kofta); Chapter 13: Long-term care in Turkey: challenges
and opportunities (Sema Oglak); Chapter 14: The emergence of eldercare
industry in China - progress and challenges (Xiying Fan, Heying Jenny Zhan
and Qi Wang); Chapter 15: Challenges of care work under the new long-term
care insurance for elderly people in South Korea (Yongho Chon); Chapter 16:
Migrant live-in care workers in Taiwan: multiple roles, cultural functions,
and the new division of care labour (Li-Fang Liang); Chapter 17: Has the
long-term care insurance contributed to de-familialisation? Familialisation
and marketization of eldercare in Japan (Yayoi Saito); Chapter 18: Care
robots in Japanese elderly care: cultural values in focus (Nobu Ishiguro);
Chapter 19: Long-term services and supports for the elderly in the United
States: a complex system of perverse incentives (Candace Howes); Chapter
20: Complexities, tensions, and promising practices: work in Canadian
long-term residential care (Pat Armstrong and Tamara Daly); Chapter 21:
Reforms to long-term care in Australia: a changing and challenging
landscape (Jane Mears); Chapter 22: Facing the challenges of population
longevity but not being ready - the case of Argentina (Nélida Redondo);
Index