The Routledge Handbook of Social Care Work Around the World

ISBN-13: 9781472479457 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 360 str.

Karen Christensen; Doria Pilling

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 Šlesingerová); Chapter 12: Imbalance between demand and supply of long-term care – the case of post-communist Poland (Stanisława 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