Beyond Voluntary Organizations and the Welfare State: Patterns of Informal Helping in the Scandinavian Countries

Jegermalm, Magnus; Hermansen, Jonathan; Fladmoe, Audun

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98717-0_4

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“…"Voluntary work" signifies the work a person does within voluntary organizations for others than family and close friends without receiving regular payment [21,22]. While the general participation in voluntary organizations in Norway is high [23,24], recent studies show that voluntary work in the LTC sector is modest [25,26]. This might indicate that the above-mentioned strong call for increased contribution from volunteers on the one hand is inconsistent with the relatively stable low prevalence of volunteers in LTC on the other.…”

Section: Norwegian Long-term Care and Volunteeringmentioning

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Configurations of Care Work: Fragile Partnerships in the Co-Production of Long-Term Care Services

Tingvold,

Olsvold

2023

Societies

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Over the last decade, authorities in several Western countries have stated their ambitions to increase the share of volunteers contributing alongside professionals in the future long-term care (LTC) sector, but the introduction of volunteers as co-producers of care services is sparsely investigated. This article is based on an empirical case study in Norway and investigates how co-production is translated into practice in diverse settings. Our findings demonstrate that understandings of voluntary work were fragmented. Co-production appears as a fragile partnership with an unclear understanding of the roles, expectations, and opportunities among the various parties who had different purposes/agendas and limited knowledge. To successfully provide added value in coproducing care, agents need to understand the whole picture and context, and build a common understanding of ‘why’ coproduce.

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Section: Norwegian Long-term Care and Volunteeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Configurations of Care Work: Fragile Partnerships in the Co-Production of Long-Term Care Services

Tingvold,

Olsvold

2023

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“…Despite the fact that the general participation in voluntary organisations in Norway is high (Folkestad et al, 2015;Jegermalm et al, 2019), a study showed that voluntary work in the LTC sector is relatively modest (Andfossen, 2016). This might indicate a discrepancy in expectations between the present strong call for the contribution of volunteers and a relatively stable low prevalence in LTC.…”

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Does context matter? Voluntary work in long-term care

Tingvold

Førland

2021

Nordic Journal of Social Research

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Introduction: Increased voluntary work in long-term care (LTC) is encouraged in white papers in Norway as well as in many other western states. This is due to the growth in the number of service recipients and a subsequent economic burden for the state. Voluntary work in nursing homes and home care services take place in different spatial contexts, but little attention has been paid to how the different contexts may potentially influence the possibilities for voluntary work. The aim of this study is to obtain new knowledge of the significance of context in recruitment of volunteers in LTC. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted among leaders in nursing homes and home services in 50 municipalities across all regions of Norway. Descriptive analysis was used. Results: According to the leaders, home care services had less voluntary work than nursing homes. Respondents from home care scored “poor flow of information” and “low interest in the municipality” as major hinderances, more so than respondents from nursing homes did. Discussion: Nursing homes typically have many residents under one roof following a similar schedule. Thus, volunteer-run activities are held more easily at set times and incorporated into the daily life of the institutions. On the other hand, home dwellers in home care stay in a more individualised setting with more autonomy and can opt out of activities that nursing home residents would normally join. Skill acquisition, networking and socializing are common motivations for volunteering, and a nursing home setting may be an easier context to obtain this. The governmental endeavour for increased voluntary work in LTC can be seen as an effort to meet expected rises in public expenditure. However, the realism can be debated due to substantial challenges on the future potential of volunteerism in LTC, especially in the home care context.

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“…This study poses the questions of who performs and who receives personal care in Sweden, a generous welfare state where eldercare is, by law, a municipality matter, and family responsibility supposedly occurs voluntarily (Jegermalm et al 2019). Sweden is also known for its strong norms of gender equality, including gender-egalitarian ideas of care responsibilities.…”

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“…The availability of eldercare has thus decreased since the 1980s (Szebehely and Meagher 2018). Although a statutory right to eldercare exists, informal caregiving has increased among both women and men (Jegermalm and Grassman 2012;Szebehely et al 2014), and the role of intergenerational caregiving is predicted to become increasingly important (Jegermalm et al 2019). Most Swedish studies have combined research on care to anyone outside and/or inside the household, and in a few cases, older parents have been distinguished (e.g., Stanfors et al 2019;National Board of Health and Welfare 2012;Szebehely and Ulmanen 2012).…”

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Are Mothers and Daughters Most Important? How Gender, Childhood Family Dissolution and Parents’ Current Living Arrangements Affect the Personal Care of Parents

Kridahl

Duvander

2021

Social Sciences

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This study examines adult children’s propensity to provide personal care to older mothers and fathers. The theory of intergenerational solidarity facilitates the understanding of commitment and support between adult children and parents. Solidarity may depend on childhood events as well as the current situation, and we therefore focus on whether there was a parental breakup in childhood and the parent’s current living arrangements. We also focus on the gendered aspects of the relations as earlier research has found stronger matrilinear relationships. The propensity for personal care was analyzed with regression analysis using the 2012 Swedish Generations and Gender Survey. The results show that daughters are more likely than sons to provide personal care to both parents. Parental breakup in childhood does not change the propensity of personal care to any parent. The probability of receiving care is higher for lone mothers than for mothers living with the father, but not for repartnered mothers. Adult children’s care provision does not differ for lone fathers and fathers living with the mother, but children are more likely to provide care to lone fathers than to repartnered fathers. We interpret this to indicate that repartnering weakens ties to fathers but not mothers. The results indicate that the child’s gender and the parent’s living arrangements operate differently with regard to care for mothers and fathers. The most common pattern is care provided from daughters to mothers. For example, daughters of lone mothers are more likely to provide care than sons in the same situation. We conclude that intergenerational solidarity is not affected by parental breakup in childhood but that present living arrangements affect such solidarity in gendered ways.

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Beyond Voluntary Organizations and the Welfare State: Patterns of Informal Helping in the Scandinavian Countries

Cited by 8 publications

References 32 publications

Configurations of Care Work: Fragile Partnerships in the Co-Production of Long-Term Care Services

Configurations of Care Work: Fragile Partnerships in the Co-Production of Long-Term Care Services

Does context matter? Voluntary work in long-term care

Are Mothers and Daughters Most Important? How Gender, Childhood Family Dissolution and Parents’ Current Living Arrangements Affect the Personal Care of Parents

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