Care ‘going market’: Finnish elderly-care policies in transition

Anttonen, Anneli; Häikiö, Liisa

doi:10.15845/njsr.v2i0.111

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“…Re-familialisation has been evident in Sweden since the 1980s (Johansson et al, 2003;Szebehely and Trydegård, 2012;Ulmanen and Szebehely, 2015), where the share of population 75 and over in need of practical help care who received care from non-cohabiting relatives rose from 40% in 1988-89 to 65% in 2010 (Ulmanen 2015: 22). Data is patchier on the other countries, but available evidence points to similar trends in Finland, (Anttonen and Häikiö, 2011;Henriksson and Wrede, 2008;Kröger and Leinonen, 2011) and in Norway (Svalund 2005). We have not found any Danish studies on family care over time.…”

Section: Re-familialisation?mentioning

confidence: 98%

Nordic eldercare – Weak universalism becoming weaker?

Szebehely

Meagher

2017

Journal of European Social Policy

162

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This paper builds on recent research on the fortunes of universalism in European social policy by tracing the development of eldercare policy in four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Six dimensions of universalism are used to assess whether and how eldercare has been universalised or de-universalised in each country in recent decades and the consequences of the trends thereby identified. We find that de-universalisation has occurred in all four countries, but more so in Finland and Sweden than in Denmark and Norway. Available data show an increase in forprofit provision of publicly funded care services (via policies promoting service marketisation), and an increase of family care (re-familialisation) as well of services, paid out-of-pocket (privatisation).These changes have occurred without an explicit attack on universalism or retrenchment of formal rights but are threatening the class-and gender-equalising potential of Nordic welfare states.2

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Section: Re-familialisation?mentioning

confidence: 98%

Nordic eldercare – Weak universalism becoming weaker?

Szebehely

Meagher

2017

Journal of European Social Policy

162

108

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“…On the whole a contrary trend in Table 1 can be seen in the informal care sector. This pattern of development has been suggested to be a sign that "care is going market" (Anttonen and Häikiö, 2011).…”

Section: A New Policy -Regular Home Care and Informal Carementioning

confidence: 93%

“…Timonen (2003) has focused on the restructuring of public health and social services, especially on reorganization and privatization during the years of economic recession in Finland in the 1990s, compared to Sweden. Anttonen and Häikiö (2011) evaluated the marketization and its effects on elderly-care policies with statistical data from 1990-2009. Kröger and Leinonen (2011) have analyzed the trends in home care services during the decades from 1990-2010.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The welfare culture and the redesign of social elder-care in Finland

Bäckman¹

2016

Environ Soc Psychol

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The welfare culture and the redesign of social eldercare in Finland. © 2016 Guy Bäckman. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 130 RESEARCH ARTICLEThe welfare culture and the redesign of social eldercare in Finland Guy Bäckman * Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Abstract: The welfare culture consists of doctrines and ideologies, beliefs, ideas, values and ideal norms that various groups and actors in the society have concerning the welfare state. The new ways of thinking, which are derived from the cultural turn and paradigm shift in social sciences, is in actual environments influenced and strengthened by economic and social changes, and also by the increasing number of old people. The Nordic welfare model (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), which is distinct from the other welfare models, is because of its basic ideological foundation, which also pertains to Finland, the general frame for the welfare culture. The characteristics of the environments in which people live, such as risks and uncertainties, impact thoughts and ideas they have about actual and preferred conditions, and influence the interest in renewal of welfare arrangements, schemes and services. Following this lead, we examine the changes in the legislation concerning social eldercare services and changes in provision and use of eldercare services in Finland. We also examine the division of responsibility for social eldercare between the public and private sector. Because the welfare arrangements are embedded in a complex cultural context, the research helps us to understand the shaping of the social eldercare. Great changes in the Finnish eldercare in favour of care at home or in a home-like environment have taken place. The goal "more home care, less institutional care" will serve even in the future as guidance in social eldercare.

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“…As a response to such expectations, there have been various policy announcements including at the level of EU institutions (see e.g. Mills et al, 2014 (Anttonen and Häikiö, 2011). England, the Netherlands and Sweden have taken a similar route by awarding smaller volumes of publicly funded service hours (see Grootegeld and Van Dijk, 2012;Ulmanen and Szebehely, 2015;Burchardt et al, 2016).…”

Section: Tragic Moments: Paradoxical (Re-)privatisation and Disorganimentioning

confidence: 99%