Hildegard Theobald
Biographic Data
| ID | 381740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hildegard Theobald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hildegard |
| FAMILY NAME | Theobald |
| SIGNATURE | THEOBALD H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vechta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7455-6672 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reform policies and distribution struggles in the eldercare sector in Germany
The poor working conditions of care workers within Germany’s eldercare sector have resulted in a series of reforms. Employing a conceptual framework that combines feminist perspectives on the devaluation of care work, Fraser’s concept of recognition and redistribution, and Honneth’s concept of distribution struggles, this article assesses whether these reforms have increased the social status of this undervalued sector. The findings indicate that…
Brennglas Corona und die Reformen in der Altenpflege in Deutschland: Nationale und internationale Perspektiven
Die Corona-Pandemie, die den Altenpflegesektor im besonderen Maße getroffen hat, hat wie in einem Brennglas die Probleme in der Altenpflege hervortreten lassen. Internationale und nationale Forschungen haben die Auswirkungen der Pandemie, die Herausforderungen aber auch Ressourcen im Sektor und Ansätze der Bewältigung untersucht. Der Personalsituation – Qualifikation, Personalschlüssel, Arbeits-, und Beschäftigungssituation – und daraus folgend d…
Sorgepolitiken und die Konsequenzen für die Gleichstellung von pflegenden Familienangehörigen: Deutschland und Schweden im Vergleich
Im Fokus des Artikels steht der Einfluss von Sorgepolitiken für Ältere auf die Gleichstellung von pflegenden Familienangehörigen in Deutschland und Schweden. Sorgepolitiken in Schweden, die darauf zielen, die Familie in ihrer Sorgearbeit zu entlasten, haben zu einem Rückgang des zeitlichen Umfangs informeller Sorgearbeit und gleichzeitig einer breiten Verteilung der weniger umfangreichen Sorgetätigkeiten in der Bevölkerung geführt. Veränderungen …
Home care development in Korea and Germany: The interplay of long‐term care and professionalization policies
The aim of the study was to compare the effects of long‐term care and professionalization policies on the development of home care infrastructure and the care workforce in reference to long‐term care insurance systems adopted in Germany and Korea. A comparative analysis of the effects of the two policy systems allowed us to examine distinct forms of marketized home care service expansion. In both countries, the opening‐up of care markets has brou…
Elderly care in changing societies: Concurrences in divergent care regimes - a comparison of Germany, Sweden and Italy
European countries are facing social changes that are challenging their long-term care (LTC) systems in different ways. The ageing population and the decrease of care potential in families have led to different paths of modification to traditional care regime organization. This article compares the LTC policies of Sweden, Germany and Italy, three countries that have traditionally been regarded as representatives of distinct regime types in care r…
Care workers with migration backgrounds in formal care services in Germany: A multi-level intersectional analysis
The restructuring of formal care services in Germany was followed by an increase in care workers with migration backgrounds. Based on a survey study in home-based and residential care, this article compares the situation of care workers with and without migration backgrounds. With its own conceptual framework of multi-level intersectional analysis, it examines developments in care organisations embedded in long-term care, professionalisation and …
Marketisation policies in different contexts: Consequences for home‐care workers in Germany, Japan and Sweden
Market‐oriented restructurings of long‐term care policies contribute significantly to the aggravation of care workers’ situations. This article focuses on the effects of broader long‐term care policy developments on market‐oriented reforms. Germany, Japan and Sweden are three countries that have introduced market‐oriented reforms into home‐based care provision embedded in distinct long‐term care policy developments. Conceptually, this article dra…
Sorge: Arbeit, Verhältnisse, Regime
Radical Institutional Change and Incremental Transformation: Long-Term Care Insurance in Germany
Combining welfare mix and New Public Management: The case of long‐term care insurance in Germany
Theobald H. Combining welfare mix and New Public Management: The case of long‐term care insurance in Germany With the introduction of Long‐term Care Insurance, Germany restructured formal care provision by implementing reforms inspired by New Public Management (NPM), emphasising the market, competition and efficiency. The article analyses the process of implementation of NPM measures within the preconditions of Germany's welfare mix of care respo…
Home-based care provision within the German welfare mix: Home-based care provision
With the introduction of long-term care insurance (LTCI) in 1995/96, Germany established a universal long-term care scheme within a cost containment framework to provide public support in defined situations of care dependency. The scheme aimed to promote ageing in place with an emphasis on public support for family care provision as a precondition. A further aim was the expansion of market-oriented professional care services to offer users a choi…
Migrant Carers in Elder Care Provision: Interaction of Policy Fields
Since the 1980s, research into the concept of social care, that is, childcare or elder care, has revealed the widespread care activities of women and the relationship of these to the creation of gender (in)equality. Since then, new research focus has emphasized that social care is also related to issues of ethnic inequality, for example, US research in the 1990s by Graham (1991) which investigated the inclusion of care work provided by migrant ca…
Multi‐level governance and universalism: Austria and Germany compared
Purpose The paper compares the introduction of universal long‐term care schemes and the regulations of migrant care work within the framework of multi‐level governance in Austria and Germany. The aim of the paper is twofold. First, it reveals the characteristics of country‐specific universal policy schemes and second, it explains their designs – the new type of universalism and its completion by regulations of migrant care work within the family …
The introduction of long-term care policy schemes: Policy Development, Policy Transfer and Policy Change
Since the early 1990s, several European countries (and Japan) have in turn introduced new long-term care schemes. Our analysis starts with the assumption that the policy design of the long-term care schemes can be explained by the interplay of factors originating within and beyond nation states. Policy changes are determined by internal and external factors, including voluntary transfers between countries. Our findings highlight the dominance of …
Pflegepolitik, Sorgetätigkeiten und Ungleichheit: Europäische Perspektiven
Seit Ende der 1990er Jahre wird in der international vergleichenden Wohlfahrtsstaatsforschung die gemeinsame Analyse von Verteilungswirkungen von Sozialpolitiken auf soziale – und Geschlechterungleichheit gefordert. Am Beispiel der Pflegekräfte in der Altenbetreuung wird in dem Beitrag der Einfluss pflegepolitischer Regelungen auf das Zusammenspiel unterschiedlicher Formen von Ungleichheiten untersucht. Der Beitrag geht zunächst von der Hypothese…
Care-Politiken, Care-Arbeitsmarkt und Ungleichheit: Schweden, Deutschland und Italien im Vergleich
Governing Home Care: A Cross-National Comparison
Care of the elderly in their own homes has increasingly come into the focus of contemporary welfare policies and raises important questions about the governance of welfare in general. By taking a comparative and thematic approach, this interesting and timely book offers a comprehensive analysis of the principal issues surrounding the governance of home care.
Neighborhood violent crime and unemployment increase the risk of coronary heart disease: A multilevel study in an urban setting
Care for the elderly: Welfare system, professionalisation and the question of inequality
Since the 1960s, the health system has seen the professionalisation of a new occupation, carer of the elderly. The form and result of this process differs between countries according to their welfare systems. In this paper, the differences will be analysed in a comparison between two countries, Germany and Sweden, the representatives of two prototypical welfare systems. Sweden is renowned for its state‐oriented universal welfare system, whereas G…
Neighborhood violent crime and unemployment increase the risk of coronary heart disease: A multilevel study in an urban setting
Marketisation policies in different contexts: Consequences for home‐care workers in Germany, Japan and Sweden
Market‐oriented restructurings of long‐term care policies contribute significantly to the aggravation of care workers’ situations. This article focuses on the effects of broader long‐term care policy developments on market‐oriented reforms. Germany, Japan and Sweden are three countries that have introduced market‐oriented reforms into home‐based care provision embedded in distinct long‐term care policy developments. Conceptually, this article dra…
The introduction of long-term care policy schemes: Policy Development, Policy Transfer and Policy Change
Since the early 1990s, several European countries (and Japan) have in turn introduced new long-term care schemes. Our analysis starts with the assumption that the policy design of the long-term care schemes can be explained by the interplay of factors originating within and beyond nation states. Policy changes are determined by internal and external factors, including voluntary transfers between countries. Our findings highlight the dominance of …
Combining welfare mix and New Public Management: The case of long‐term care insurance in Germany
Theobald H. Combining welfare mix and New Public Management: The case of long‐term care insurance in Germany With the introduction of Long‐term Care Insurance, Germany restructured formal care provision by implementing reforms inspired by New Public Management (NPM), emphasising the market, competition and efficiency. The article analyses the process of implementation of NPM measures within the preconditions of Germany's welfare mix of care respo…
Home-based care provision within the German welfare mix: Home-based care provision
With the introduction of long-term care insurance (LTCI) in 1995/96, Germany established a universal long-term care scheme within a cost containment framework to provide public support in defined situations of care dependency. The scheme aimed to promote ageing in place with an emphasis on public support for family care provision as a precondition. A further aim was the expansion of market-oriented professional care services to offer users a choi…
Care workers with migration backgrounds in formal care services in Germany: A multi-level intersectional analysis
The restructuring of formal care services in Germany was followed by an increase in care workers with migration backgrounds. Based on a survey study in home-based and residential care, this article compares the situation of care workers with and without migration backgrounds. With its own conceptual framework of multi-level intersectional analysis, it examines developments in care organisations embedded in long-term care, professionalisation and …
Elderly care in changing societies: Concurrences in divergent care regimes - a comparison of Germany, Sweden and Italy
European countries are facing social changes that are challenging their long-term care (LTC) systems in different ways. The ageing population and the decrease of care potential in families have led to different paths of modification to traditional care regime organization. This article compares the LTC policies of Sweden, Germany and Italy, three countries that have traditionally been regarded as representatives of distinct regime types in care r…
Care for the elderly: Welfare system, professionalisation and the question of inequality
Since the 1960s, the health system has seen the professionalisation of a new occupation, carer of the elderly. The form and result of this process differs between countries according to their welfare systems. In this paper, the differences will be analysed in a comparison between two countries, Germany and Sweden, the representatives of two prototypical welfare systems. Sweden is renowned for its state‐oriented universal welfare system, whereas G…
Multi‐level governance and universalism: Austria and Germany compared
Purpose The paper compares the introduction of universal long‐term care schemes and the regulations of migrant care work within the framework of multi‐level governance in Austria and Germany. The aim of the paper is twofold. First, it reveals the characteristics of country‐specific universal policy schemes and second, it explains their designs – the new type of universalism and its completion by regulations of migrant care work within the family …
Care-Politiken, Care-Arbeitsmarkt und Ungleichheit: Schweden, Deutschland und Italien im Vergleich
Care for the elderly: Welfare system, professionalisation and the question of inequality
Since the 1960s, the health system has seen the professionalisation of a new occupation, carer of the elderly. The form and result of this process differs between countries according to their welfare systems. In this paper, the differences will be analysed in a comparison between two countries, Germany and Sweden, the representatives of two prototypical welfare systems. Sweden is renowned for its state‐oriented universal welfare system, whereas G…
Neighborhood violent crime and unemployment increase the risk of coronary heart disease: A multilevel study in an urban setting
Governing Home Care: A Cross-National Comparison
Care of the elderly in their own homes has increasingly come into the focus of contemporary welfare policies and raises important questions about the governance of welfare in general. By taking a comparative and thematic approach, this interesting and timely book offers a comprehensive analysis of the principal issues surrounding the governance of home care.
Care-Politiken, Care-Arbeitsmarkt und Ungleichheit: Schweden, Deutschland und Italien im Vergleich
Pflegepolitik, Sorgetätigkeiten und Ungleichheit: Europäische Perspektiven
Seit Ende der 1990er Jahre wird in der international vergleichenden Wohlfahrtsstaatsforschung die gemeinsame Analyse von Verteilungswirkungen von Sozialpolitiken auf soziale – und Geschlechterungleichheit gefordert. Am Beispiel der Pflegekräfte in der Altenbetreuung wird in dem Beitrag der Einfluss pflegepolitischer Regelungen auf das Zusammenspiel unterschiedlicher Formen von Ungleichheiten untersucht. Der Beitrag geht zunächst von der Hypothese…
Migrant Carers in Elder Care Provision: Interaction of Policy Fields
Since the 1980s, research into the concept of social care, that is, childcare or elder care, has revealed the widespread care activities of women and the relationship of these to the creation of gender (in)equality. Since then, new research focus has emphasized that social care is also related to issues of ethnic inequality, for example, US research in the 1990s by Graham (1991) which investigated the inclusion of care work provided by migrant ca…
Multi‐level governance and universalism: Austria and Germany compared
Purpose The paper compares the introduction of universal long‐term care schemes and the regulations of migrant care work within the framework of multi‐level governance in Austria and Germany. The aim of the paper is twofold. First, it reveals the characteristics of country‐specific universal policy schemes and second, it explains their designs – the new type of universalism and its completion by regulations of migrant care work within the family …
The introduction of long-term care policy schemes: Policy Development, Policy Transfer and Policy Change
Since the early 1990s, several European countries (and Japan) have in turn introduced new long-term care schemes. Our analysis starts with the assumption that the policy design of the long-term care schemes can be explained by the interplay of factors originating within and beyond nation states. Policy changes are determined by internal and external factors, including voluntary transfers between countries. Our findings highlight the dominance of …
Combining welfare mix and New Public Management: The case of long‐term care insurance in Germany
Theobald H. Combining welfare mix and New Public Management: The case of long‐term care insurance in Germany With the introduction of Long‐term Care Insurance, Germany restructured formal care provision by implementing reforms inspired by New Public Management (NPM), emphasising the market, competition and efficiency. The article analyses the process of implementation of NPM measures within the preconditions of Germany's welfare mix of care respo…
Home-based care provision within the German welfare mix: Home-based care provision
With the introduction of long-term care insurance (LTCI) in 1995/96, Germany established a universal long-term care scheme within a cost containment framework to provide public support in defined situations of care dependency. The scheme aimed to promote ageing in place with an emphasis on public support for family care provision as a precondition. A further aim was the expansion of market-oriented professional care services to offer users a choi…
Radical Institutional Change and Incremental Transformation: Long-Term Care Insurance in Germany
Sorge: Arbeit, Verhältnisse, Regime
Care workers with migration backgrounds in formal care services in Germany: A multi-level intersectional analysis
The restructuring of formal care services in Germany was followed by an increase in care workers with migration backgrounds. Based on a survey study in home-based and residential care, this article compares the situation of care workers with and without migration backgrounds. With its own conceptual framework of multi-level intersectional analysis, it examines developments in care organisations embedded in long-term care, professionalisation and …
Marketisation policies in different contexts: Consequences for home‐care workers in Germany, Japan and Sweden
Market‐oriented restructurings of long‐term care policies contribute significantly to the aggravation of care workers’ situations. This article focuses on the effects of broader long‐term care policy developments on market‐oriented reforms. Germany, Japan and Sweden are three countries that have introduced market‐oriented reforms into home‐based care provision embedded in distinct long‐term care policy developments. Conceptually, this article dra…
Elderly care in changing societies: Concurrences in divergent care regimes - a comparison of Germany, Sweden and Italy
European countries are facing social changes that are challenging their long-term care (LTC) systems in different ways. The ageing population and the decrease of care potential in families have led to different paths of modification to traditional care regime organization. This article compares the LTC policies of Sweden, Germany and Italy, three countries that have traditionally been regarded as representatives of distinct regime types in care r…
Sorgepolitiken und die Konsequenzen für die Gleichstellung von pflegenden Familienangehörigen: Deutschland und Schweden im Vergleich
Im Fokus des Artikels steht der Einfluss von Sorgepolitiken für Ältere auf die Gleichstellung von pflegenden Familienangehörigen in Deutschland und Schweden. Sorgepolitiken in Schweden, die darauf zielen, die Familie in ihrer Sorgearbeit zu entlasten, haben zu einem Rückgang des zeitlichen Umfangs informeller Sorgearbeit und gleichzeitig einer breiten Verteilung der weniger umfangreichen Sorgetätigkeiten in der Bevölkerung geführt. Veränderungen …
Home care development in Korea and Germany: The interplay of long‐term care and professionalization policies
The aim of the study was to compare the effects of long‐term care and professionalization policies on the development of home care infrastructure and the care workforce in reference to long‐term care insurance systems adopted in Germany and Korea. A comparative analysis of the effects of the two policy systems allowed us to examine distinct forms of marketized home care service expansion. In both countries, the opening‐up of care markets has brou…
Brennglas Corona und die Reformen in der Altenpflege in Deutschland: Nationale und internationale Perspektiven
Die Corona-Pandemie, die den Altenpflegesektor im besonderen Maße getroffen hat, hat wie in einem Brennglas die Probleme in der Altenpflege hervortreten lassen. Internationale und nationale Forschungen haben die Auswirkungen der Pandemie, die Herausforderungen aber auch Ressourcen im Sektor und Ansätze der Bewältigung untersucht. Der Personalsituation – Qualifikation, Personalschlüssel, Arbeits-, und Beschäftigungssituation – und daraus folgend d…
Reform policies and distribution struggles in the eldercare sector in Germany
The poor working conditions of care workers within Germany’s eldercare sector have resulted in a series of reforms. Employing a conceptual framework that combines feminist perspectives on the devaluation of care work, Fraser’s concept of recognition and redistribution, and Honneth’s concept of distribution struggles, this article assesses whether these reforms have increased the social status of this undervalued sector. The findings indicate that…
Political science (16 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (16 works) · Economics (11 works) · Social and Demographic Issues in Germany (11 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works)