Vad är problemet? - om konstruktionen av äldre invandrare som problem inom vård och omsorg.
(2006)School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The purpose of this essay was to see how the construction of elderly immigrants as a problem in healthcare and elderly care has been described in the relevant literature. In the course of doing so I tried to answer the following questions; What is said to be the expected problems or difficulties in work with eldely immigrants? How are the expected members of the problemgroup defined and identified? Whos perspective dominates the description of the problem, the users or the investigators? These questions were hard to answer and I had to conclude that the problem was not clearly defined; there was only an assumption of a problem. This, however, has not been a hindrance in the category of elderly immigrants being claimed to be a group with... (More)
- The purpose of this essay was to see how the construction of elderly immigrants as a problem in healthcare and elderly care has been described in the relevant literature. In the course of doing so I tried to answer the following questions; What is said to be the expected problems or difficulties in work with eldely immigrants? How are the expected members of the problemgroup defined and identified? Whos perspective dominates the description of the problem, the users or the investigators? These questions were hard to answer and I had to conclude that the problem was not clearly defined; there was only an assumption of a problem. This, however, has not been a hindrance in the category of elderly immigrants being claimed to be a group with problems that need research and further investigation. The dominating perspective is that of the investigators as they are the ones who define and identify who is a part of the problemgroup. (Less)
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- author
- Brorsson, Jeccika
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2006
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- äldre invandrare, socialkonstruktivism, anspråksformering, problemkonstruktion, Social changes, theory of social work, Sociala förändringar, teorier om socialt arbete, Social problems and welfare, national insurance, Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1326627
- date added to LUP
- 2006-09-25 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2006-09-25 00:00:00
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Vad är problemet? - om konstruktionen av äldre invandrare som problem inom vård och omsorg.}},
year = {{2006}},
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