International Policy Perspectives on Independence in Old Age

Plath, Debbie

doi:10.1080/08959420902733173

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“…Similar limitations in assistance were also identified in a study by Ellefsen , when HCAs communicated their heavy workload in both verbal and nonverbal signs, for example looking at the watch. According to Sandman and Plath , independence is central in the sense that a person can act according to one's desire and needs to be balanced with dependence. Underestimating one's needs which Plath illuminate can be compared to the situation exemplified by a participant in our study when facilitate the HCAs' schedule.…”

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Older people's experience of utilisation and administration of medicines in a health‐ and social care context

Craftman

Westerbotn

Strauss

et al. 2015

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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PostprintThis is the accepted version of a paper published in Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. This paper has been peer-reviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination. Citation for the original published paper (version of record):Craftman, Å., Westerbotn, M., von Strauss, E., Hillerås, P., Marmstål Hammar, L. (2015) Older people's experience of utilisation and administration of medicines in a health-and social care context.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Older people's experience of utilisation and administration of medicines in a health‐ and social care context

Craftman

Westerbotn

Strauss

et al. 2015

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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“…), we might see applications for home care as indicators that people have reached a stage of decline at which depending solely on one's individual capacities is often a battle already lost. This also involves adopting a more nuanced understanding of independence, recognising that independence is not only a matter of receiving home care or not, but rather a negotiated identity, which may or may not be irreconcilable with receiving formalised care (Barken , Plath ).…”

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“…). Reablement thereby maps onto a general tendency for eldercare policies to be based on an unquestionable ideal of independence (Plath , Weicht ).…”

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“…In this context, the ambition of increasing older people's independence is central and promises to serve the dual purpose of reducing eldercare expenditures while at the same time improving the quality of life for older people (Aspinal et al 2016). Reablement thereby maps onto a general tendency for eldercare policies to be based on an unquestionable ideal of independence (Plath 2009, Weicht 2011.…”

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Home care as reablement or enabling arrangements? An exploration of the precarious dependencies in living with functional decline

Bødker

Christensen

Langstrup

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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The threat to welfare societies posed by population ageing has urged high‐income countries to rethink the provision of social and healthcare services for the ageing population. One widely implemented policy solution is ‘reablement’: short‐term home‐based training programmes focusing on re‐enabling older people to carry out activities of daily living independently. Drawing on empirical material from multisited ethnographic fieldwork of reablement practices in a Danish municipality we explore how the assumptions about independence embedded in the concept's linguistic parts – ‘re’, ‘able’ and ‘ment’ – map onto lives characterised by functional decline. We find that home care applicants: (i) are often too deeply dependent on the capacities of others in order to have their independence restored; (ii) negotiate individual meanings of independence to maintain their identity as able human beings; and (iii) might possibly gain new capacities through reablement, yet these are not individual and stable achievements, but rather temporary effects of the care relations with eldercare professionals. Rather than reablement we, therefore, suggest the term ‘enabling arrangements’ as more appropriate for capturing independence as a distributed, negotiated and continuous accomplishment. Finally, we discuss the practical and ethical implications of this term.

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“…Out of the five objectives traditionally identified in this category (Cuadrado et al 2006): full employment; economic growth; external economic balance; price stability; and income redistribution; that of "full employment" will be the most appropriate. Lastly, this objective of full employment will give meaning and definition to the longterm objectives that are fixed in each economy depending fundamentally on the ideas and operation of each society such as freedom, justice, equality, independence (see Plath 2009), etc. In fact, according to psychologists Alfred Binet (1908) and Emile Tolouse (1903) the ultimate version of guidance practices was the creation of a harmonious society based on the recognition, by all those concerned, of holding a position corresponding to their abilities (Guichard & Huteau 2003).…”

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Guidance for Older Workers: An Overview of the Spanish Situation

López‐Sánchez

2010

Ageing Int.

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This paper aims to attract attention on career guidance from an economic policy approach. Guidance will be defined as an economic instrument contributing to active ageing of the population. Taking Spain as an example, it will be demonstrated that there is a need for more policy making in third age guidance. After a brief revision of guidance provision in Spain, the methodology is based on a combination of techniques aimed at gathering qualitative and quantitative information, including statistical analysis data obtained from 369 personal interviews with the participants of the Guidance Service of the Business Confederation of the Province of Alicante (Spain), ten individual interviews with social partners: employers' organisations and trade unions representatives, and a working session with six guidance experts. Spain is a country where some progress in terms of active labour policies, specially guidance, and older workers, has occurred in the recent years, but the age is not still considered as a relevant factor in policy making in this country. Age guidance is very well valued by social actors and old workers but still insufficient. Spanish survey showed that in order to get real effectiveness, career guidance must give response to old workers' needs, by paying full and specific attention to this collective.

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International Policy Perspectives on Independence in Old Age

Cited by 30 publications

References 11 publications

Older people's experience of utilisation and administration of medicines in a health‐ and social care context

Older people's experience of utilisation and administration of medicines in a health‐ and social care context

Home care as reablement or enabling arrangements? An exploration of the precarious dependencies in living with functional decline

Guidance for Older Workers: An Overview of the Spanish Situation

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