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Schultz, Caroline LU and Pestisha, Lirija (2020) SOPA63 20192
School of Social Work
Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine how care managers experience the challenges that they encounter in their meetings with elderly who suffers from mental illness. We have through qualitative semi structured interviews interviewed seven care managers within the elderly care. To analyze our result we have used Michael Lipsky’s theory about street level bureaucracy. The care managers in our study talked about the elders mental illness in terms of: loneliness, isolation, melancholy, worry, sadness, aggressiveness, anxiety, depression, misconception and suicide attempts. Our results showed that the care managers experience four primary challenges in their contact with elderly who suffers from mental illness. These are that the services... (More)
The aim of this study was to examine how care managers experience the challenges that they encounter in their meetings with elderly who suffers from mental illness. We have through qualitative semi structured interviews interviewed seven care managers within the elderly care. To analyze our result we have used Michael Lipsky’s theory about street level bureaucracy. The care managers in our study talked about the elders mental illness in terms of: loneliness, isolation, melancholy, worry, sadness, aggressiveness, anxiety, depression, misconception and suicide attempts. Our results showed that the care managers experience four primary challenges in their contact with elderly who suffers from mental illness. These are that the services available doesn’t always fit the elderly who suffers from mental illness, and as a result the care managers sometimes have difficulties finding the right help to provide to their clients. The care managers also experience challenges in establishing contact with the elderly, and our findings shows that physical needs are prioritized before social needs. The care managers also talked about the challenges of cooperation with the providers of elderly care, in the sense that the care managers must rely on a third party to provide the efforts they decide upon. (Less)
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Schultz, Caroline LU and Pestisha, Lirija
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organization
alternative title
En kvalitativ studie om biståndshandläggare inom äldreomsorgens utmaningar i kontakten med äldre som lider av psykisk ohälsa.
course
SOPA63 20192
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Elderly, mental illness, care manager, Michael Lipsky, discretion.
language
Swedish
id
9002445
date added to LUP
2020-01-23 10:18:05
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2020-01-23 10:18:05
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  abstract     = {{The aim of this study was to examine how care managers experience the challenges that they encounter in their meetings with elderly who suffers from mental illness. We have through qualitative semi structured interviews interviewed seven care managers within the elderly care. To analyze our result we have used Michael Lipsky’s theory about street level bureaucracy. The care managers in our study talked about the elders mental illness in terms of: loneliness, isolation, melancholy, worry, sadness, aggressiveness, anxiety, depression, misconception and suicide attempts. Our results showed that the care managers experience four primary challenges in their contact with elderly who suffers from mental illness. These are that the services available doesn’t always fit the elderly who suffers from mental illness, and as a result the care managers sometimes have difficulties finding the right help to provide to their clients. The care managers also experience challenges in establishing contact with the elderly, and our findings shows that physical needs are prioritized before social needs. The care managers also talked about the challenges of cooperation with the providers of elderly care, in the sense that the care managers must rely on a third party to provide the efforts they decide upon.}},
  author       = {{Schultz, Caroline and Pestisha, Lirija}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Det är ju så, alla passar ju inte in i den där lilla ramen.}},
  year         = {{2020}},
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