Teppo Kröger
Biographic Data
| ID | 257860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teppo Kröger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teppo |
| FAMILY NAME | Kröger |
| SIGNATURE | KRÖGER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5019-6230 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Aging in place with disabled and non-disabled children: Widowed mothers aged 80 + in an East Asian Familialist Welfare Context
The ageing-in-place experiences of widowed mothers caring for adult children with intellectual disabilities remain underexplored in gerontology and long-term care research. This study compares the experiences of widowed mothers aged 80 and over in Taiwan, an East Asian context in which filial piety continues to shape housing and care arrangements, among those with and without adult children with intellectual disabilities. Drawing on Clapham's Hou…
Aging in institutions in East Asia: Care poverty pathways among older adults with intellectual disabilities
Despite policy commitments to aging in place and deinstitutionalization, little research has examined older adults with intellectual disabilities who continue to age in long-stay institutions, particularly in East Asian and other non-Western contexts. Using Taiwan as an East Asian case, this study explores how place-specific care arrangements, unmet support needs, and welfare infrastructures shape pathways into institutional care and experiences …
Ageing and Care Poverty: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges
In this article, the authors articulate care poverty as a new theoretical lens through which we might understand the challenges people face as they age and need help and support in their daily lives. They draw on similar theoretical frameworks such as unmet need in formal service provision, and demonstrate how care poverty is a more powerful epistemological and discursive tool than unmet need to analyse the complexity of needs and support that pe…
Carers of persons with dementia and the social consequences of caring
Caring affects the social relationships of unpaid carers and the families of those being cared for in multiple ways. Care for a person with dementia often becomes demanding and requires reconciliation of caring with a personal life, work and social relationships. Carers are also prone to care poverty. In this article, we examine the social consequences of providing care for a person with dementia. Based on 21 diaries written by carers, and using …
From Conceptual Gaps to Policy Dialogue: Conceptual Approaches to Disability and Old Age in Ageing Research and Disability Studies
In this study, we investigated the conceptual approaches to disability and ageing in two leading social scientific journals ( Ageing & Society [AS] and Disability & Society [DS]) of the research fields that form the bases of policies on disability and ageing. This study aimed to identify the journals’ trajectories of conceptual development and their differences, and through that, find possible pathways for further interaction between the yet larg…
Policy-makers and Population Ageing in Bangladesh: A Dearth of Attention
Policy responses to population ageing have seldom been studied in Bangladesh. This article contributes to this research stream by asking to what extent policy-makers in Bangladesh are aware of the rapidly growing older population and care needs in the country and how this awareness is reflected in their policy initiatives. The concept of inattention is introduced to investigate phenomena from a public policy perspective. Data were collected via o…
Revisiting the Nordic long-term care model for older people—still equal?
With the extensive long-term care services for older people, the Nordic countries have been labelled ‘caring states’ as reported (Leira, Welfare state and working mothers: the Scandinavian experience, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992). The emphasis on services and not cash benefits ensures the Nordics a central place in the public service model (Anttonen and Sipilä, J Eur Soc Policy 6:87–100, 1996). The main feature of this ideal model…
Care Poverty: When Older People’s Needs Remain Unmet
This open access book puts forward a theoretical framework to guide future research work and public discussion on the issue of unmet long-term care needs
Not Free at All: Home Care User Fees in a Nordic Care System
In Finland, older persons are entitled to needs-tested public home care services. Home care mainly assists with personal care, activities of daily living and medical needs. It is complemented with auxiliary services that offer help with instrumental activities of daily living. In Finland, municipalities are responsible for organising public home care services. These services are mainly tax-funded, but user fees are also charged. In this article, …
Ageing in place together: Older parents and ageing offspring with intellectual disability
Limited research has been conducted about ageing in place among older parents who co-habit with their ageing offspring with intellectual disability (ID). This study aims to explore which older parents would choose ageing in place together with their ageing offspring with ID instead of moving and what factors are associated with this choice. A face-to-face interview was conducted using the ‘housing pathways’ framework with older parents (⩾60 years…
Work incapacity among family caregivers: A record linkage study
BACKGROUND: Family caregiving-related physical and mental health problems may lead to work incapacity in employed caregivers. The aim of this study was to quantify sickness absences and disability pensions (SADP) among high-intensity family caregivers available to the labour market compared with a control population. METHODS: The study sample included all individuals in Finland, who had received caregiver's allowance and were available to the lab…
Loneliness: A Social Problem by Keming Yang (2019)
nonPeerReviewed
Psychophysical burden and lack of support: Reasons for care workers’ intentions to leave their work in the Nordic countries
Long‐term care of older adults is currently suffering from a shortage of trained personnel and high turnover rates. Care work is poorly paid, demanding, increasingly time‐bound and both mentally and physically burdensome. In this study, we examined the individual, organisational and economic factors that predict professional care workers’ intentions to leave their current employment, using the NORDCARE survey data (2015, N = 3801) collected in De…
Lost in translation: Implementing personal assistance in an East Asian context
Since 2012, Taiwanese citizens with disabilities have been entitled to personal assistance from local authorities. To explore current features of personal assistance and barriers to its implementation, and distinguish it from homecare services, 33 disabled people and 12 staff members representing 10 local authorities in Taiwan were interviewed. Findings indicate that disabled people prefer personal assistance to homecare and perceive that relatio…
Looking for the Easy Way Out: Demographic Panic and the Twists and Turns of Long-Term Care Policy in Finland
Care poverty: Unmet care needs in a Nordic welfare state
This article introduces the concept of care poverty, defined as inadequate coverage of care needs resulting from an interplay between individual and societal factors, and examines its level and predictors among the 75+ population in Finland. The data come from a survey conducted in 2010 and 2015. Despite the universalistic goals of the Finnish care system, 26 percent of respondents with limitations in daily activities faced care poverty with rega…
Impact of care responsibilities on women’s employment: A comparison between European and East Asian welfare states
Women with care responsibilities tend to reduce their labour market activity and to work part time, even if there are cross-national differences. Empirical research often analyses this separately for childcare and elderly care, and studies are usually limited to Western societies. This article aims to explore to what extent women’s care responsibilities for children and older people impact on women’s labour market integration and how this impact …
Application of the International classification of functioning, disability and health in Taiwan: Victory of the medical model
Since July 2012, eligibility for disability benefits and services in Taiwan has been assessed based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. This study examines disabled people’s experiences of this new assessment system: does it incorporate the social model or a multidimensional understanding of disability and assess the needs of disabled people adequately? In-depth interviews were employed with 24 disabled pers…
Using Private Social Care Services in Finland: Free or Forced Choices for Older People
Use of private social care services among older people is increasing in Finland. This study aims to understand why older people choose private care in a comprehensive tax-subsidized social care system and examines whether people choose private service as a free choice or a forced choice as well as what factors contribute toward making these choices. Data for this study (N = 1,436) were gathered in 2010 from people aged 75 and above living indepen…
Users of home-care services in a Nordic welfare state under marketisation: The rich, the poor and the sick
Stricter access to public services, outsourcing of municipal services and increasing allocation of public funding for the purchase of private services have resulted in a marketisation wave in Finland. In this context of a Nordic welfare state undergoing marketisation, this paper aims to examine the use of Finnish care services among older people and find out who are using these new kinds of private services. How wide is their use and do the users…
Reconciliation of work and care among lone mothers of adults with intellectual disabilities: The role and limits of care capital
In this study, the concept of social capital is applied to an exploration of Guanxi (social networking to create good relationships) among working lone mothers of adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) in Taiwan. Using in-depth interviews, this study explores the role of social capital, here referred to as 'care capital', in making it possible for working lone mothers to combine their roles as family carers and workers. Eleven divorced or wid…
Combining Paid Work and Family Care: Policies and experiences in international perspective
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and …
Combining Paid Work and Family Care: Policies and Experiences in International Perspective
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and …
Well‐being among employed and non‐employed caregiving women in Taiwan
Chou Y‐C, Kröger T, Chiao C, Pu C‐Y. Well‐being among employed and non‐employed caregiving women in Taiwan This study addressed various groups of non‐employed/employed and non‐caring/caring women in Taiwan. Data from the 2006 National Taiwanese Women Survey (at age 16–64, n = 6,017) were analysed to determine whether there are differences in terms of well‐being, as measured by self‐rated health and family life satisfaction, between women who work…
Voice and choice for users and carers? Developments in patterns of care for older people in Australia, England and Finland
This article identifies key trends over the last 20 years in residential and community care for older people in England, Finland and Australia, investigating the extent of ‘de-institutionalisation’, ‘privatisation’ and ‘individualisation’. The concepts of collective and individual ‘voice’ and ‘choice’ are used to interrogate the roles of collective and individual actors, older people and carers, in influencing policy formulation. While these thre…
Care research and disability studies: Nothing in common
Disability researchers have voiced the criticism that the concept of care, together with research based on it, consists of the view that disabled people are dependent non-autonomous second-class citizens. The perspectives of disability studies and care research certainly are different from each other. Disability studies analyse the oppression and exclusion of disabled people and emphasize that disabled people need human rights and control over th…
Voice and choice for users and carers? Developments in patterns of care for older people in Australia, England and Finland
This article identifies key trends over the last 20 years in residential and community care for older people in England, Finland and Australia, investigating the extent of ‘de-institutionalisation’, ‘privatisation’ and ‘individualisation’. The concepts of collective and individual ‘voice’ and ‘choice’ are used to interrogate the roles of collective and individual actors, older people and carers, in influencing policy formulation. While these thre…
Transformation by stealth: The retargeting of home care services in Finland
This paper analyses the trends and changes that home care services for older people have undergone during the last two decades in Finland. The data used come from national social care statistics, covering the time period from 1990-2010. The results show that, in contrast to many other European nations that have expanded their home care provisions, the coverage levels in Finland have dropped dramatically during this period. Those with the highest …
Defamilisation, dedomestication and care policy: Comparing childcare service provisions of welfare states
Purpose This paper aims to use perspectives from both mainstream and feminist welfare state research in drafting a conceptual approach for social care research. This approach is then applied empirically to a comparative analysis of childcare provisions of 15 OECD countries. Design/methodology/approach The concept of dedomestication is developed from a discussion on the notions of decommodification and defamilisation, and it is defined as the degr…
Lone mothers and the puzzles of daily life: Do care regimes really matter
Kröger T. Lone mothers and the puzzles of daily life: do care regimes really matter? Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 390–401 © 2009 The Author, Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This article studies childcare patterns and day‐to‐day strategies of 111 working lone mothers from Finland, France, Italy, Portugal and the UK, and asks whether their arrangements are prescribed by care regime…
Retuning the Nordic welfare municipality: Central regulation of social care under change in Finland
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the changes that have taken place in the central regulation of social care in Finland since the 1970s. The changes in vertical central‐local relations are discussed in the context of economic and welfare state development. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a case study, applying the concept of "the Nordic welfare municipality" to the case of Finland. With this concept, the author refers t…
Care poverty: Unmet care needs in a Nordic welfare state
This article introduces the concept of care poverty, defined as inadequate coverage of care needs resulting from an interplay between individual and societal factors, and examines its level and predictors among the 75+ population in Finland. The data come from a survey conducted in 2010 and 2015. Despite the universalistic goals of the Finnish care system, 26 percent of respondents with limitations in daily activities faced care poverty with rega…
Users of home-care services in a Nordic welfare state under marketisation: The rich, the poor and the sick
Stricter access to public services, outsourcing of municipal services and increasing allocation of public funding for the purchase of private services have resulted in a marketisation wave in Finland. In this context of a Nordic welfare state undergoing marketisation, this paper aims to examine the use of Finnish care services among older people and find out who are using these new kinds of private services. How wide is their use and do the users…
The Dilemma of Municipalities: Scandinavian Approaches to Child Day-care Provision
The article discusses the role of Scandinavian local governments in providing welfare state services. Wide-ranging social care services are probably the most distinctive feature of the Scandinavian welfare societies. These services, in the main, have been financed publicly and provided by local government. The traditional principle of Scandinavian local self-government, requiring local autonomy, and the goal of a welfare state providing a uniform…
Using Private Social Care Services in Finland: Free or Forced Choices for Older People
Use of private social care services among older people is increasing in Finland. This study aims to understand why older people choose private care in a comprehensive tax-subsidized social care system and examines whether people choose private service as a free choice or a forced choice as well as what factors contribute toward making these choices. Data for this study (N = 1,436) were gathered in 2010 from people aged 75 and above living indepen…
The Local and the National in Community Care: Exploring Policy and Politics in Finland and Britain
International literature on community care tends to focus on the national level of welfare institutions and policies. However, community care is largely a locally tailored service and this paper makes a case for local comparisons of community care policies. Using local case studies from Finland and Britain, the paper argues that focusing on the local level contributes to the comparative study of community care in two ways. First, local comparison…
Psychophysical burden and lack of support: Reasons for care workers’ intentions to leave their work in the Nordic countries
Long‐term care of older adults is currently suffering from a shortage of trained personnel and high turnover rates. Care work is poorly paid, demanding, increasingly time‐bound and both mentally and physically burdensome. In this study, we examined the individual, organisational and economic factors that predict professional care workers’ intentions to leave their current employment, using the NORDCARE survey data (2015, N = 3801) collected in De…
Lost in translation: Implementing personal assistance in an East Asian context
Since 2012, Taiwanese citizens with disabilities have been entitled to personal assistance from local authorities. To explore current features of personal assistance and barriers to its implementation, and distinguish it from homecare services, 33 disabled people and 12 staff members representing 10 local authorities in Taiwan were interviewed. Findings indicate that disabled people prefer personal assistance to homecare and perceive that relatio…
Application of the International classification of functioning, disability and health in Taiwan: Victory of the medical model
Since July 2012, eligibility for disability benefits and services in Taiwan has been assessed based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. This study examines disabled people’s experiences of this new assessment system: does it incorporate the social model or a multidimensional understanding of disability and assess the needs of disabled people adequately? In-depth interviews were employed with 24 disabled pers…
Impact of care responsibilities on women’s employment: A comparison between European and East Asian welfare states
Women with care responsibilities tend to reduce their labour market activity and to work part time, even if there are cross-national differences. Empirical research often analyses this separately for childcare and elderly care, and studies are usually limited to Western societies. This article aims to explore to what extent women’s care responsibilities for children and older people impact on women’s labour market integration and how this impact …
Reconciliation of work and care among lone mothers of adults with intellectual disabilities: The role and limits of care capital
In this study, the concept of social capital is applied to an exploration of Guanxi (social networking to create good relationships) among working lone mothers of adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) in Taiwan. Using in-depth interviews, this study explores the role of social capital, here referred to as 'care capital', in making it possible for working lone mothers to combine their roles as family carers and workers. Eleven divorced or wid…
Ageing and Care Poverty: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges
In this article, the authors articulate care poverty as a new theoretical lens through which we might understand the challenges people face as they age and need help and support in their daily lives. They draw on similar theoretical frameworks such as unmet need in formal service provision, and demonstrate how care poverty is a more powerful epistemological and discursive tool than unmet need to analyse the complexity of needs and support that pe…
Carers of persons with dementia and the social consequences of caring
Caring affects the social relationships of unpaid carers and the families of those being cared for in multiple ways. Care for a person with dementia often becomes demanding and requires reconciliation of caring with a personal life, work and social relationships. Carers are also prone to care poverty. In this article, we examine the social consequences of providing care for a person with dementia. Based on 21 diaries written by carers, and using …
Policy-makers and Population Ageing in Bangladesh: A Dearth of Attention
Policy responses to population ageing have seldom been studied in Bangladesh. This article contributes to this research stream by asking to what extent policy-makers in Bangladesh are aware of the rapidly growing older population and care needs in the country and how this awareness is reflected in their policy initiatives. The concept of inattention is introduced to investigate phenomena from a public policy perspective. Data were collected via o…
Not Free at All: Home Care User Fees in a Nordic Care System
In Finland, older persons are entitled to needs-tested public home care services. Home care mainly assists with personal care, activities of daily living and medical needs. It is complemented with auxiliary services that offer help with instrumental activities of daily living. In Finland, municipalities are responsible for organising public home care services. These services are mainly tax-funded, but user fees are also charged. In this article, …
Well‐being among employed and non‐employed caregiving women in Taiwan
Chou Y‐C, Kröger T, Chiao C, Pu C‐Y. Well‐being among employed and non‐employed caregiving women in Taiwan This study addressed various groups of non‐employed/employed and non‐caring/caring women in Taiwan. Data from the 2006 National Taiwanese Women Survey (at age 16–64, n = 6,017) were analysed to determine whether there are differences in terms of well‐being, as measured by self‐rated health and family life satisfaction, between women who work…
The adoption of market-based practices within care for older people: Is the work satisfaction of Nordic care workers at risk
Market-based practices, including privatization and the increased emphasis on managerialism, have entered Nordic social- and health-care systems for elderly people. This article examines whether the adoption of these practices has affected the work satisfaction of care workers in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The data used comes from a postal survey conducted in spring 2005 among Nordic care workers, covering 2716 respondents who provided…
The Dilemma of Municipalities: Scandinavian Approaches to Child Day-care Provision
The article discusses the role of Scandinavian local governments in providing welfare state services. Wide-ranging social care services are probably the most distinctive feature of the Scandinavian welfare societies. These services, in the main, have been financed publicly and provided by local government. The traditional principle of Scandinavian local self-government, requiring local autonomy, and the goal of a welfare state providing a uniform…
Universalism in social care for older people in Finland – weak and still getting weaker
The Local and the National in Community Care: Exploring Policy and Politics in Finland and Britain
International literature on community care tends to focus on the national level of welfare institutions and policies. However, community care is largely a locally tailored service and this paper makes a case for local comparisons of community care policies. Using local case studies from Finland and Britain, the paper argues that focusing on the local level contributes to the comparative study of community care in two ways. First, local comparison…
A Nordic Welfare State in Post-industrial Society
Lone mothers and the puzzles of daily life: Do care regimes really matter
Kröger T. Lone mothers and the puzzles of daily life: do care regimes really matter? Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 390–401 © 2009 The Author, Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This article studies childcare patterns and day‐to‐day strategies of 111 working lone mothers from Finland, France, Italy, Portugal and the UK, and asks whether their arrangements are prescribed by care regime…
Care research and disability studies: Nothing in common
Disability researchers have voiced the criticism that the concept of care, together with research based on it, consists of the view that disabled people are dependent non-autonomous second-class citizens. The perspectives of disability studies and care research certainly are different from each other. Disability studies analyse the oppression and exclusion of disabled people and emphasize that disabled people need human rights and control over th…
The adoption of market-based practices within care for older people: Is the work satisfaction of Nordic care workers at risk?
Market-based practices, including privatization and the increased emphasis on managerialism, have entered Nordic social- and health-care systems for elderly people. This article examines whether the adoption of these practices has affected the work satisfaction of care workers in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The data used comes from a postal survey conducted in spring 2005 among Nordic care workers, covering 2716 respondents who provided…
The adoption of market-based practices within care for older people: Is the work satisfaction of Nordic care workers at risk
Market-based practices, including privatization and the increased emphasis on managerialism, have entered Nordic social- and health-care systems for elderly people. This article examines whether the adoption of these practices has affected the work satisfaction of care workers in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The data used comes from a postal survey conducted in spring 2005 among Nordic care workers, covering 2716 respondents who provided…
Transformation by stealth: The retargeting of home care services in Finland
This paper analyses the trends and changes that home care services for older people have undergone during the last two decades in Finland. The data used come from national social care statistics, covering the time period from 1990-2010. The results show that, in contrast to many other European nations that have expanded their home care provisions, the coverage levels in Finland have dropped dramatically during this period. Those with the highest …
Defamilisation, dedomestication and care policy: Comparing childcare service provisions of welfare states
Purpose This paper aims to use perspectives from both mainstream and feminist welfare state research in drafting a conceptual approach for social care research. This approach is then applied empirically to a comparative analysis of childcare provisions of 15 OECD countries. Design/methodology/approach The concept of dedomestication is developed from a discussion on the notions of decommodification and defamilisation, and it is defined as the degr…
Retuning the Nordic welfare municipality: Central regulation of social care under change in Finland
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the changes that have taken place in the central regulation of social care in Finland since the 1970s. The changes in vertical central‐local relations are discussed in the context of economic and welfare state development. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a case study, applying the concept of "the Nordic welfare municipality" to the case of Finland. With this concept, the author refers t…
Well‐being among employed and non‐employed caregiving women in Taiwan
Chou Y‐C, Kröger T, Chiao C, Pu C‐Y. Well‐being among employed and non‐employed caregiving women in Taiwan This study addressed various groups of non‐employed/employed and non‐caring/caring women in Taiwan. Data from the 2006 National Taiwanese Women Survey (at age 16–64, n = 6,017) were analysed to determine whether there are differences in terms of well‐being, as measured by self‐rated health and family life satisfaction, between women who work…
Voice and choice for users and carers? Developments in patterns of care for older people in Australia, England and Finland
This article identifies key trends over the last 20 years in residential and community care for older people in England, Finland and Australia, investigating the extent of ‘de-institutionalisation’, ‘privatisation’ and ‘individualisation’. The concepts of collective and individual ‘voice’ and ‘choice’ are used to interrogate the roles of collective and individual actors, older people and carers, in influencing policy formulation. While these thre…
Combining Paid Work and Family Care: Policies and experiences in international perspective
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and …
Combining Paid Work and Family Care: Policies and Experiences in International Perspective
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and …
Reconciliation of work and care among lone mothers of adults with intellectual disabilities: The role and limits of care capital
In this study, the concept of social capital is applied to an exploration of Guanxi (social networking to create good relationships) among working lone mothers of adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) in Taiwan. Using in-depth interviews, this study explores the role of social capital, here referred to as 'care capital', in making it possible for working lone mothers to combine their roles as family carers and workers. Eleven divorced or wid…
Users of home-care services in a Nordic welfare state under marketisation: The rich, the poor and the sick
Stricter access to public services, outsourcing of municipal services and increasing allocation of public funding for the purchase of private services have resulted in a marketisation wave in Finland. In this context of a Nordic welfare state undergoing marketisation, this paper aims to examine the use of Finnish care services among older people and find out who are using these new kinds of private services. How wide is their use and do the users…
Using Private Social Care Services in Finland: Free or Forced Choices for Older People
Use of private social care services among older people is increasing in Finland. This study aims to understand why older people choose private care in a comprehensive tax-subsidized social care system and examines whether people choose private service as a free choice or a forced choice as well as what factors contribute toward making these choices. Data for this study (N = 1,436) were gathered in 2010 from people aged 75 and above living indepen…
Impact of care responsibilities on women’s employment: A comparison between European and East Asian welfare states
Women with care responsibilities tend to reduce their labour market activity and to work part time, even if there are cross-national differences. Empirical research often analyses this separately for childcare and elderly care, and studies are usually limited to Western societies. This article aims to explore to what extent women’s care responsibilities for children and older people impact on women’s labour market integration and how this impact …
Application of the International classification of functioning, disability and health in Taiwan: Victory of the medical model
Since July 2012, eligibility for disability benefits and services in Taiwan has been assessed based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. This study examines disabled people’s experiences of this new assessment system: does it incorporate the social model or a multidimensional understanding of disability and assess the needs of disabled people adequately? In-depth interviews were employed with 24 disabled pers…
Looking for the Easy Way Out: Demographic Panic and the Twists and Turns of Long-Term Care Policy in Finland
Care poverty: Unmet care needs in a Nordic welfare state
This article introduces the concept of care poverty, defined as inadequate coverage of care needs resulting from an interplay between individual and societal factors, and examines its level and predictors among the 75+ population in Finland. The data come from a survey conducted in 2010 and 2015. Despite the universalistic goals of the Finnish care system, 26 percent of respondents with limitations in daily activities faced care poverty with rega…
Loneliness: A Social Problem by Keming Yang (2019)
nonPeerReviewed
Psychophysical burden and lack of support: Reasons for care workers’ intentions to leave their work in the Nordic countries
Long‐term care of older adults is currently suffering from a shortage of trained personnel and high turnover rates. Care work is poorly paid, demanding, increasingly time‐bound and both mentally and physically burdensome. In this study, we examined the individual, organisational and economic factors that predict professional care workers’ intentions to leave their current employment, using the NORDCARE survey data (2015, N = 3801) collected in De…
Lost in translation: Implementing personal assistance in an East Asian context
Since 2012, Taiwanese citizens with disabilities have been entitled to personal assistance from local authorities. To explore current features of personal assistance and barriers to its implementation, and distinguish it from homecare services, 33 disabled people and 12 staff members representing 10 local authorities in Taiwan were interviewed. Findings indicate that disabled people prefer personal assistance to homecare and perceive that relatio…
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