Gerdt Sundström
Biographic Data
| ID | 296942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerdt Sundström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerdt |
| FAMILY NAME | Sundström |
| SIGNATURE | SUNDSTRÖM G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jönköping University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ett halvt århundrade svensk äldreomsorg– var står stat och familj?
Den svenska offentliga äldreomsorgen växte starkt från 1950-talet, och nådde sin högsta nivå på 1980-talet, för att därefter minska under 2000-talet. Med hjälp av riksrepresentativa befolkningsundersökningar från 1954 och fram till 2009 studerar vi mönster i äldres hjälpbehov och insatser från familj och offentlig omsorg. Ansvarsförhållandet mellan stat och familj har skiftat över tid, men omsorg från anhöriga och det offentliga överlappar allt m…
Stereotypes about caregiving and lessons from the Swedish panorama of care
This article analyzes the panorama of care provision in Sweden from the informal carers' perspective. We consider informal care, publicly financed services, for-profit agencies and voluntary organizations, using a survey conducted in 2009. Most cared-for persons with minor needs living in a separate household are helped also by others, but only a tenth use public services or other providers. About half of cared-for persons with major needs living…
(In)Formal Support and Unmet Needs in The National Long-Term Care Survey
We linked individual-level data from the 2004 wave of the National Long-Term Care Survey with state-level data from the National Aging Program Information Systems (NAPIS) State Program Reports to predict care mix and unmet need for assistance. Our sample consisted of 2422 community-dwelling individuals aged 65 and older (69% women, 8% nonwhite) who reported at least one limitation in an instrumental or basic activity of daily living. We used the …
Loneliness among older Europeans
How equitable is Sweden's changing care-mix? Linking individual and regional characteristics over time
Given its relative ethnic and socio-economic homogeneity, Sweden is an ideal nation for the study of variations in formal and informal care as a function of gender, disability and advanced age. This paper reports an analysis of the relationships between gender, disability and age and the formal care delivered to more than 1,200 people aged 75 or more years in Sweden in 1994 and 2000. In municipalities that provided above-average home-help hours p…
Balancing family and state care: Neither, either or both? The case of Sweden
Old-age care has frequently been conceptualised as being either family-based or publicly-provided. This article analyses the overlap in provision from the two sources and their relationship in the Swedish welfare state. Many older people and their carers rely on both sources of help rather than on just one, and prefer to do so. The empirical evidence on patterns of care in Sweden supports a joint family-state conceptualisation of care. Its realis…
Life on the Edge: Patterns of Formal and Informal Help to Older Adults in the United States and Sweden
Differences suggest formal services supplement informal support in the United States and that formal and informal services are complementary in Sweden
State provision down, offspring's up: The reverse substitution of old-age care in Sweden
Substitution among the providers of old-age care has usually meant a process whereby the state ‘takes over’ what families used to do, but during the 1980s and 1990s, both home help and institutional care were cut back substantially in Sweden as elsewhere. Comparable, nationally representative surveys in Sweden of the provision of care for older people living in the community enable analysis of the effects of these cutbacks on the sources and patt…
How Many Elders Receive Assistance: A Cross-National Comparison
Cultural differences predating current policies in both countries appear to influence informal support over and above what can be accounted for by demographic differences alone
The effects of rationing home-help services in Spain and Sweden: A comparative analysis
In both Spain and Sweden the most important public support for older people that is provided in their own homes are home-help services. In Sweden, these programmes were expanded in years of economic growth but recently have radically declined. Spain still strives to expand them in spite of financial problems. Both countries ration these services but in different ways. Spain provides relatively few hours of help with household tasks, primarily to …
Local variations in old age care in the welfare state: The case of Sweden
Migration among the elderly, the Stockholm case
This article on migration among elderly in the Stockholm area discusses the subject with four research question in mind. It is shown that migration frequencies are higher in the agegroup around 65, which is the formal retirement age in Sweden, and that the flow is going from Stockholm to less populated areas and small towns. Some former immigrants to the area will migrate back to the regions where they grew up and spent their formative years. To …
A haven in a heartless world? Living with parents in Sweden and the United States, 1880–1982
Cette étude corrobore l'idée que le rythme du processus de l'abandon de la maison paternelle est plus rapide aujourd'hui qu'auparavant. La co-résidence avec des parents est maintenant plus fréquente avant I'âge de vingt ans, et mois fréquente par la suite. Néanmoins, les modèles de co-résidence avec des parents varient beaucoup selon les sociétés. A des âges plus avancés, la co-résidence est à peu prés aussi rare aujourd'hui qu'auparavant. La plu…
Family and State: Recent Trends in the Care of the Aged in Sweden
Drawing upon a variety of research data and national statistics, this paper presents a detailed analysis of the contribution made by family and informal care to the support of elderly Scandinavians. Comparative data from other countries are employed to highlight some similarities with other European, American and Far Eastern societies. Formal help is directed at the childless and those who live alone, but the conclusions draw attention to the dan…
The Elderly, Women's Work and Social Security Costs
The article intends to demonstrate the continuing importance of informal care, especially of the elderly, and for social security costs The author argues that social security costs depend on the availability of informal care, not solely on economic level and the proportion of elderly in a country's population (as maintained by Wilensky) Eight countries are studied. The indicator of availability of informal care is number of women 45-59 years per …
State provision down, offspring's up: The reverse substitution of old-age care in Sweden
Substitution among the providers of old-age care has usually meant a process whereby the state ‘takes over’ what families used to do, but during the 1980s and 1990s, both home help and institutional care were cut back substantially in Sweden as elsewhere. Comparable, nationally representative surveys in Sweden of the provision of care for older people living in the community enable analysis of the effects of these cutbacks on the sources and patt…
Balancing family and state care: Neither, either or both? The case of Sweden
Old-age care has frequently been conceptualised as being either family-based or publicly-provided. This article analyses the overlap in provision from the two sources and their relationship in the Swedish welfare state. Many older people and their carers rely on both sources of help rather than on just one, and prefer to do so. The empirical evidence on patterns of care in Sweden supports a joint family-state conceptualisation of care. Its realis…
Life on the Edge: Patterns of Formal and Informal Help to Older Adults in the United States and Sweden
Differences suggest formal services supplement informal support in the United States and that formal and informal services are complementary in Sweden
Stereotypes about caregiving and lessons from the Swedish panorama of care
This article analyzes the panorama of care provision in Sweden from the informal carers' perspective. We consider informal care, publicly financed services, for-profit agencies and voluntary organizations, using a survey conducted in 2009. Most cared-for persons with minor needs living in a separate household are helped also by others, but only a tenth use public services or other providers. About half of cared-for persons with major needs living…
Family and State: Recent Trends in the Care of the Aged in Sweden
Drawing upon a variety of research data and national statistics, this paper presents a detailed analysis of the contribution made by family and informal care to the support of elderly Scandinavians. Comparative data from other countries are employed to highlight some similarities with other European, American and Far Eastern societies. Formal help is directed at the childless and those who live alone, but the conclusions draw attention to the dan…
How Many Elders Receive Assistance: A Cross-National Comparison
Cultural differences predating current policies in both countries appear to influence informal support over and above what can be accounted for by demographic differences alone
A haven in a heartless world? Living with parents in Sweden and the United States, 1880–1982
Cette étude corrobore l'idée que le rythme du processus de l'abandon de la maison paternelle est plus rapide aujourd'hui qu'auparavant. La co-résidence avec des parents est maintenant plus fréquente avant I'âge de vingt ans, et mois fréquente par la suite. Néanmoins, les modèles de co-résidence avec des parents varient beaucoup selon les sociétés. A des âges plus avancés, la co-résidence est à peu prés aussi rare aujourd'hui qu'auparavant. La plu…
The Elderly, Women's Work and Social Security Costs
The article intends to demonstrate the continuing importance of informal care, especially of the elderly, and for social security costs The author argues that social security costs depend on the availability of informal care, not solely on economic level and the proportion of elderly in a country's population (as maintained by Wilensky) Eight countries are studied. The indicator of availability of informal care is number of women 45-59 years per …
(In)Formal Support and Unmet Needs in The National Long-Term Care Survey
We linked individual-level data from the 2004 wave of the National Long-Term Care Survey with state-level data from the National Aging Program Information Systems (NAPIS) State Program Reports to predict care mix and unmet need for assistance. Our sample consisted of 2422 community-dwelling individuals aged 65 and older (69% women, 8% nonwhite) who reported at least one limitation in an instrumental or basic activity of daily living. We used the …
The effects of rationing home-help services in Spain and Sweden: A comparative analysis
In both Spain and Sweden the most important public support for older people that is provided in their own homes are home-help services. In Sweden, these programmes were expanded in years of economic growth but recently have radically declined. Spain still strives to expand them in spite of financial problems. Both countries ration these services but in different ways. Spain provides relatively few hours of help with household tasks, primarily to …
The Elderly, Women's Work and Social Security Costs
The article intends to demonstrate the continuing importance of informal care, especially of the elderly, and for social security costs The author argues that social security costs depend on the availability of informal care, not solely on economic level and the proportion of elderly in a country's population (as maintained by Wilensky) Eight countries are studied. The indicator of availability of informal care is number of women 45-59 years per …
Family and State: Recent Trends in the Care of the Aged in Sweden
Drawing upon a variety of research data and national statistics, this paper presents a detailed analysis of the contribution made by family and informal care to the support of elderly Scandinavians. Comparative data from other countries are employed to highlight some similarities with other European, American and Far Eastern societies. Formal help is directed at the childless and those who live alone, but the conclusions draw attention to the dan…
A haven in a heartless world? Living with parents in Sweden and the United States, 1880–1982
Cette étude corrobore l'idée que le rythme du processus de l'abandon de la maison paternelle est plus rapide aujourd'hui qu'auparavant. La co-résidence avec des parents est maintenant plus fréquente avant I'âge de vingt ans, et mois fréquente par la suite. Néanmoins, les modèles de co-résidence avec des parents varient beaucoup selon les sociétés. A des âges plus avancés, la co-résidence est à peu prés aussi rare aujourd'hui qu'auparavant. La plu…
Local variations in old age care in the welfare state: The case of Sweden
Migration among the elderly, the Stockholm case
This article on migration among elderly in the Stockholm area discusses the subject with four research question in mind. It is shown that migration frequencies are higher in the agegroup around 65, which is the formal retirement age in Sweden, and that the flow is going from Stockholm to less populated areas and small towns. Some former immigrants to the area will migrate back to the regions where they grew up and spent their formative years. To …
How Many Elders Receive Assistance: A Cross-National Comparison
Cultural differences predating current policies in both countries appear to influence informal support over and above what can be accounted for by demographic differences alone
The effects of rationing home-help services in Spain and Sweden: A comparative analysis
In both Spain and Sweden the most important public support for older people that is provided in their own homes are home-help services. In Sweden, these programmes were expanded in years of economic growth but recently have radically declined. Spain still strives to expand them in spite of financial problems. Both countries ration these services but in different ways. Spain provides relatively few hours of help with household tasks, primarily to …
State provision down, offspring's up: The reverse substitution of old-age care in Sweden
Substitution among the providers of old-age care has usually meant a process whereby the state ‘takes over’ what families used to do, but during the 1980s and 1990s, both home help and institutional care were cut back substantially in Sweden as elsewhere. Comparable, nationally representative surveys in Sweden of the provision of care for older people living in the community enable analysis of the effects of these cutbacks on the sources and patt…
Life on the Edge: Patterns of Formal and Informal Help to Older Adults in the United States and Sweden
Differences suggest formal services supplement informal support in the United States and that formal and informal services are complementary in Sweden
Balancing family and state care: Neither, either or both? The case of Sweden
Old-age care has frequently been conceptualised as being either family-based or publicly-provided. This article analyses the overlap in provision from the two sources and their relationship in the Swedish welfare state. Many older people and their carers rely on both sources of help rather than on just one, and prefer to do so. The empirical evidence on patterns of care in Sweden supports a joint family-state conceptualisation of care. Its realis…
How equitable is Sweden's changing care-mix? Linking individual and regional characteristics over time
Given its relative ethnic and socio-economic homogeneity, Sweden is an ideal nation for the study of variations in formal and informal care as a function of gender, disability and advanced age. This paper reports an analysis of the relationships between gender, disability and age and the formal care delivered to more than 1,200 people aged 75 or more years in Sweden in 1994 and 2000. In municipalities that provided above-average home-help hours p…
Loneliness among older Europeans
(In)Formal Support and Unmet Needs in The National Long-Term Care Survey
We linked individual-level data from the 2004 wave of the National Long-Term Care Survey with state-level data from the National Aging Program Information Systems (NAPIS) State Program Reports to predict care mix and unmet need for assistance. Our sample consisted of 2422 community-dwelling individuals aged 65 and older (69% women, 8% nonwhite) who reported at least one limitation in an instrumental or basic activity of daily living. We used the …
Stereotypes about caregiving and lessons from the Swedish panorama of care
This article analyzes the panorama of care provision in Sweden from the informal carers' perspective. We consider informal care, publicly financed services, for-profit agencies and voluntary organizations, using a survey conducted in 2009. Most cared-for persons with minor needs living in a separate household are helped also by others, but only a tenth use public services or other providers. About half of cared-for persons with major needs living…
Ett halvt århundrade svensk äldreomsorg– var står stat och familj?
Den svenska offentliga äldreomsorgen växte starkt från 1950-talet, och nådde sin högsta nivå på 1980-talet, för att därefter minska under 2000-talet. Med hjälp av riksrepresentativa befolkningsundersökningar från 1954 och fram till 2009 studerar vi mönster i äldres hjälpbehov och insatser från familj och offentlig omsorg. Ansvarsförhållandet mellan stat och familj har skiftat över tid, men omsorg från anhöriga och det offentliga överlappar allt m…
Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (11 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Gerontology (9 works) · Gerontology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (8 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)