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Biståndshandläggares handlingsutrymme

Torkelsson, Ellen LU and Lundberg, Camilla (2022) SOPA63 20221
School of Social Work
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to find out how assistance officers reason about making decisions about moving to special housing. We pay special attention to the principle of remaining resident, which should guide such decisions. The main focus of this study is to increase understanding and provide a clearer picture of the historical events that have resulted in the success of the remaining residency principle in elderly care. We also want to clarify the role of the assistance officer as a street-level bureaucrat. The study is based on qualitative interviews with six assistance officers working within Swedish elderly care. The interviews were conducted with assistance officers from different municipalities in south Sweden in order to... (More)
The purpose of this study is to find out how assistance officers reason about making decisions about moving to special housing. We pay special attention to the principle of remaining resident, which should guide such decisions. The main focus of this study is to increase understanding and provide a clearer picture of the historical events that have resulted in the success of the remaining residency principle in elderly care. We also want to clarify the role of the assistance officer as a street-level bureaucrat. The study is based on qualitative interviews with six assistance officers working within Swedish elderly care. The interviews were conducted with assistance officers from different municipalities in south Sweden in order to identify an extended range of similarities and differences occurring in the assessment process. The theoretical perspectives used, draws on concepts from Lipsky’s theory on street-level bureaucrats, and Scott & Lyman´s theory on accounts.
The results show that assistance officers have a very important and complex task, where they must be able to navigate between legislation, the municipality's guidelines and regulations, as well as between the elderly's expressed needs, relatives' interests and what efforts the municipality has to offer the elderly. Before this study began, we had the view that the principle of remaining residence existed for the elderly and that it provided opportunities, the right to self-determination and freedom of choice. On the other hand, we have found in this study that the remaining residence principle also has another side, in that the principle can, on the contrary, limit the elderly's freedom of choice, based on the pursuit of cost-effectiveness and the municipality's scarce resources. (Less)
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author
Torkelsson, Ellen LU and Lundberg, Camilla
supervisor
organization
alternative title
En kvalitativ studie om hur sex biståndshandläggare tar beslut i förhållande till kvarboendeprincipen
course
SOPA63 20221
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Assistance officers, remaining residence principle, ageing in place, aging in place, elderly care
language
Swedish
id
9084805
date added to LUP
2022-06-08 10:24:17
date last changed
2022-06-08 10:24:17
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  abstract     = {{The purpose of this study is to find out how assistance officers reason about making decisions about moving to special housing. We pay special attention to the principle of remaining resident, which should guide such decisions. The main focus of this study is to increase understanding and provide a clearer picture of the historical events that have resulted in the success of the remaining residency principle in elderly care. We also want to clarify the role of the assistance officer as a street-level bureaucrat. The study is based on qualitative interviews with six assistance officers working within Swedish elderly care. The interviews were conducted with assistance officers from different municipalities in south Sweden in order to identify an extended range of similarities and differences occurring in the assessment process. The theoretical perspectives used, draws on concepts from Lipsky’s theory on street-level bureaucrats, and Scott & Lyman´s theory on accounts.
The results show that assistance officers have a very important and complex task, where they must be able to navigate between legislation, the municipality's guidelines and regulations, as well as between the elderly's expressed needs, relatives' interests and what efforts the municipality has to offer the elderly. Before this study began, we had the view that the principle of remaining residence existed for the elderly and that it provided opportunities, the right to self-determination and freedom of choice. On the other hand, we have found in this study that the remaining residence principle also has another side, in that the principle can, on the contrary, limit the elderly's freedom of choice, based on the pursuit of cost-effectiveness and the municipality's scarce resources.}},
  author       = {{Torkelsson, Ellen and Lundberg, Camilla}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Biståndshandläggares handlingsutrymme}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}