Care according to age: A case of ageism or a conflict on needs?
(2022) NaPSa 2022 – den nationella paperkonferensen i socialt arbete- Abstract (Swedish)
- Despite a strong emphasis that individual support services should be provided according to needs, the Swedish welfare system often use age to organize support. A change in the Social Service Act in 2018 allows municipalities to provide home care for people above a decided age without individual any assessment of needs. Political parties and pensioners’ organizations’ have proposed for the introduction of a nursing home guarantee that assure that people over 85, regardless of needs, have the statutory right to move to a nursing home.
Within the field of critical gerontology, age-based categorizations are widely acknowledged as forms of ageism and a nursing home guarantee could be criticized for communicating that people above the age of... (More) - Despite a strong emphasis that individual support services should be provided according to needs, the Swedish welfare system often use age to organize support. A change in the Social Service Act in 2018 allows municipalities to provide home care for people above a decided age without individual any assessment of needs. Political parties and pensioners’ organizations’ have proposed for the introduction of a nursing home guarantee that assure that people over 85, regardless of needs, have the statutory right to move to a nursing home.
Within the field of critical gerontology, age-based categorizations are widely acknowledged as forms of ageism and a nursing home guarantee could be criticized for communicating that people above the age of 85 are a dependent category that belong in nursing homes. But what are older people’s own views on such age-based arrangements?
Based on eleven peer-group interviews with 27 older people, the aim of this paper is to investigate reasoning on age-based eligibility. Guided by Bradshaw’s typology on needs, the analysis revealed a controversy concerning both the meaning of needs and the meaning of age. A conclusion is that while professionals and gerontologist may dismiss a nursing home guarantee as a case of ageism, older people perceived this as a means to strengthen their rights. A nursing home guarantee was portrayed as a way of tackling ageism in a system that fails to meet the needs of older people by denying them access to care.
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- Harnett, Tove LU ; Jönson, Håkan LU and Carlstedt, Elisabeth LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-03-16
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- Contribution to conference
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- published
- subject
- conference name
- NaPSa 2022 – den nationella paperkonferensen i socialt arbete
- conference location
- Växjö, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2022-03-16 - 2022-03-17
- project
- Age as an organizing principle for the provision of services to persons with support needs
- language
- Swedish
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title = {{Care according to age: A case of ageism or a conflict on needs?}},
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