Mia Vabø
Biographic Data
| ID | 307330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mia Vabø |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mia |
| FAMILY NAME | Vabø |
| SIGNATURE | VABØ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8612-1836 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Coping within constrained social care: Emotion work, collective rulemaking, and prioritisation in Nordic eldercare
Making assessment protocols workable: Navigating transparency and person-centredness in Norwegian reablement
Western welfare states are facing great challenges as they strive to optimise their health and social systems in response to the realities of an ageing population. Many countries put a stake on reablement services-short-term rehabilitative interventions aiming to help older people regain functional capacity. To ensure a person-centred approach and outcome measures, service providers are recommended to follow a protocol designed for the dual purpo…
Unravelling the dichotomisation of care and reablement: An ethnographic exploration of contradictions between policy rhetoric and practice in Danish and Norwegian eldercare
Reablement has been positioned as a superior care ideal distinct from home care. Drawing on cross-national ethnographic data, this article instead demonstrates how the continuity and interdependency between reablement and conventional home care is more significant than suggested by policy rhetoric. Findings highlight the continuities and overlaps between activating and compensatory care, for example, how compensatory care might take the form of p…
Making sense of reablement within different institutional contexts. Collaborative service ideals in Norwegian and Danish home care
With population ageing, many countries are setting up reablement—short‐term rehabilitative eldercare interventions—aimed at helping older adults to regain independence and thereby curb their need for long‐term care. Reablement is premised on a citizen‐centred and collaborative service ideal intended to challenge the fragmented thinking associated with professionalism and a dispersed service delivery field. Drawing on contextualist sensemaking the…
Keeping up appearances’ – negotiating identities of being fit in older age: A multi-site ethnographic study of daily life in contemporary day centres
As governments adapt to ‘active ageing’ policies, care services are increasingly oriented towards helping older adults to stay active in order to maintain their physiological and cognitive capacity. Day centres for the frail old adults are adding more planned activities to their conventional social programmes. Although evidence indicates that they may benefit from physical fitness sessions and brain training, little is known about the way in whic…
Is Nordic elder care facing a (new) collaborative turn
Nordic countries are known for their service‐based welfare states, which include basic health and social care for all older adults who have been formally assessed and found to need additional services. Facing fiscal constraints in the mid‐1990s, these countries endeavoured to create more cost‐effective care services that incorporated the doctrines of new public management (NPM). Overlapping NPM, steps have been taken to better integrate services …
The assisted presentations of self in nursing home life
Shaping social situations: A hidden aspect of care work in nursing homes
A Caring State for all Older People?
The Nordic Welfare states are frequently designated with labels like ‘social service states’ (Anttonen 1990) or ‘caring states’ (Leira 1994 ) as they offer a wide variety of services, including care services for children and elderly, to citizens of all socioeconomic groups. In this chapter, attention will be directed toward the Nordic home care service, a service which is often regarded an icon of the caring states. Home care is neither the most …
Norwegian home care in transition - heading for accountability, off-loading responsibilities: Norwegian home care in transition
In Norway, home-based care forms part of the universal welfare model in that services are offered to and used by all groups of citizens. An infrastructure of in-home services has evolved within a multi-level government characterised by a combination of local autonomy and strong integration between central and local levels. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, home care was typically organised in teams characterised by collegiality and flexible organ…
Changing governance, changing needs interpretations: Implications for universalism
Purpose The paper seeks to explore how universal welfare arrangements based on needs testing may change and assume different institutional forms. Drawing attention to Norwegian home care, the paper explores how established interpretations of needs and associated notions of equity among needs have been challenged by shifting modes of governance. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on policy documents, interviews and observation from three …
Caring for People or Caring for Proxy Consumers
Reforms that aim at empowering recipients as ‘consumers’ are often seen as self-evidently favourable and unavoidable. Current narratives on public-sector change describe the previous service regimes as rigid, uniform and inhumane, whereas reforms are regarded as offering a flexible and responsive future. Accordingly, consumerism has become a major driving force behind Nordic welfare reforms. This paper presents a more nuanced analysis of the supp…
Caring for People or Caring for Proxy Consumers
Reforms that aim at empowering recipients as ‘consumers’ are often seen as self-evidently favourable and unavoidable. Current narratives on public-sector change describe the previous service regimes as rigid, uniform and inhumane, whereas reforms are regarded as offering a flexible and responsive future. Accordingly, consumerism has become a major driving force behind Nordic welfare reforms. This paper presents a more nuanced analysis of the supp…
Norwegian home care in transition - heading for accountability, off-loading responsibilities: Norwegian home care in transition
In Norway, home-based care forms part of the universal welfare model in that services are offered to and used by all groups of citizens. An infrastructure of in-home services has evolved within a multi-level government characterised by a combination of local autonomy and strong integration between central and local levels. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, home care was typically organised in teams characterised by collegiality and flexible organ…
Shaping social situations: A hidden aspect of care work in nursing homes
The assisted presentations of self in nursing home life
Changing governance, changing needs interpretations: Implications for universalism
Purpose The paper seeks to explore how universal welfare arrangements based on needs testing may change and assume different institutional forms. Drawing attention to Norwegian home care, the paper explores how established interpretations of needs and associated notions of equity among needs have been challenged by shifting modes of governance. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on policy documents, interviews and observation from three …
Making sense of reablement within different institutional contexts. Collaborative service ideals in Norwegian and Danish home care
With population ageing, many countries are setting up reablement—short‐term rehabilitative eldercare interventions—aimed at helping older adults to regain independence and thereby curb their need for long‐term care. Reablement is premised on a citizen‐centred and collaborative service ideal intended to challenge the fragmented thinking associated with professionalism and a dispersed service delivery field. Drawing on contextualist sensemaking the…
Caring for People or Caring for Proxy Consumers
Reforms that aim at empowering recipients as ‘consumers’ are often seen as self-evidently favourable and unavoidable. Current narratives on public-sector change describe the previous service regimes as rigid, uniform and inhumane, whereas reforms are regarded as offering a flexible and responsive future. Accordingly, consumerism has become a major driving force behind Nordic welfare reforms. This paper presents a more nuanced analysis of the supp…
Changing governance, changing needs interpretations: Implications for universalism
Purpose The paper seeks to explore how universal welfare arrangements based on needs testing may change and assume different institutional forms. Drawing attention to Norwegian home care, the paper explores how established interpretations of needs and associated notions of equity among needs have been challenged by shifting modes of governance. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on policy documents, interviews and observation from three …
A Caring State for all Older People?
The Nordic Welfare states are frequently designated with labels like ‘social service states’ (Anttonen 1990) or ‘caring states’ (Leira 1994 ) as they offer a wide variety of services, including care services for children and elderly, to citizens of all socioeconomic groups. In this chapter, attention will be directed toward the Nordic home care service, a service which is often regarded an icon of the caring states. Home care is neither the most …
Norwegian home care in transition - heading for accountability, off-loading responsibilities: Norwegian home care in transition
In Norway, home-based care forms part of the universal welfare model in that services are offered to and used by all groups of citizens. An infrastructure of in-home services has evolved within a multi-level government characterised by a combination of local autonomy and strong integration between central and local levels. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, home care was typically organised in teams characterised by collegiality and flexible organ…
Shaping social situations: A hidden aspect of care work in nursing homes
The assisted presentations of self in nursing home life
Is Nordic elder care facing a (new) collaborative turn
Nordic countries are known for their service‐based welfare states, which include basic health and social care for all older adults who have been formally assessed and found to need additional services. Facing fiscal constraints in the mid‐1990s, these countries endeavoured to create more cost‐effective care services that incorporated the doctrines of new public management (NPM). Overlapping NPM, steps have been taken to better integrate services …
Unravelling the dichotomisation of care and reablement: An ethnographic exploration of contradictions between policy rhetoric and practice in Danish and Norwegian eldercare
Reablement has been positioned as a superior care ideal distinct from home care. Drawing on cross-national ethnographic data, this article instead demonstrates how the continuity and interdependency between reablement and conventional home care is more significant than suggested by policy rhetoric. Findings highlight the continuities and overlaps between activating and compensatory care, for example, how compensatory care might take the form of p…
Making sense of reablement within different institutional contexts. Collaborative service ideals in Norwegian and Danish home care
With population ageing, many countries are setting up reablement—short‐term rehabilitative eldercare interventions—aimed at helping older adults to regain independence and thereby curb their need for long‐term care. Reablement is premised on a citizen‐centred and collaborative service ideal intended to challenge the fragmented thinking associated with professionalism and a dispersed service delivery field. Drawing on contextualist sensemaking the…
Keeping up appearances’ – negotiating identities of being fit in older age: A multi-site ethnographic study of daily life in contemporary day centres
As governments adapt to ‘active ageing’ policies, care services are increasingly oriented towards helping older adults to stay active in order to maintain their physiological and cognitive capacity. Day centres for the frail old adults are adding more planned activities to their conventional social programmes. Although evidence indicates that they may benefit from physical fitness sessions and brain training, little is known about the way in whic…
Making assessment protocols workable: Navigating transparency and person-centredness in Norwegian reablement
Western welfare states are facing great challenges as they strive to optimise their health and social systems in response to the realities of an ageing population. Many countries put a stake on reablement services-short-term rehabilitative interventions aiming to help older people regain functional capacity. To ensure a person-centred approach and outcome measures, service providers are recommended to follow a protocol designed for the dual purpo…
Coping within constrained social care: Emotion work, collective rulemaking, and prioritisation in Nordic eldercare
Healthcare innovation and challenges (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Norwegian (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works)