2012
DOI: 10.1080/09649069.2012.718534
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From family to personal responsibility: the challenges for care of the elderly in England

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“…They encourage a change in normative understanding of older people: no longer vulnerable passive recipients of state services but active individuals who take responsibility for and plan for their later years (Herring; Bedford). As customers they seek choice of services to meet their needs (recast perhaps as desires) (Stewart 2012). Both commissioning and brokerage shape the market.…”
Section: Addressing Inequalities and Impoverishment Though Regulationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They encourage a change in normative understanding of older people: no longer vulnerable passive recipients of state services but active individuals who take responsibility for and plan for their later years (Herring; Bedford). As customers they seek choice of services to meet their needs (recast perhaps as desires) (Stewart 2012). Both commissioning and brokerage shape the market.…”
Section: Addressing Inequalities and Impoverishment Though Regulationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While lifelong government support is an engrained value when it comes to health care in England, this has largely not extended to social care that is often required at older ages (Stewart, 2012). As a result, informal carers often make up the difference between the amount of care needed and the amount provided by the state.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Broom and Kirby () have recently indicated that this intertwining is evident within the ways in which families negotiate the dying of one of their members, flagging tension between the state and the family in terms of who has the authority and/or obligation to step in to provide for the dying person. Raising comparable questions regarding expectations about obligation and responsibility between families and the state when it comes to the organization and payment of the funeral, the intention in this paper is to illustrate how funerals are conceptualized, both sociologically and politically, according to normative cultural assumptions about family obligation (see Stewart for a discussion of how this state sponsored ideal is manifest in social care policy). It further seeks to show that this is a substantial omission within both the Sociology of Death and Sociology of Family literature.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%