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Maria Söderberg. Foto: Okänd

Maria Söderberg

Docent | Universitetslektor

Maria Söderberg. Foto: Okänd

Moral choices and responsibilities: : The home-help service at the borderland of care management when older people consider relocation to a residential home

Författare

  • Maria Söderberg

Summary, in English

The aim of this article is to reveal how care workers in the home-help services handle the process when older people’s relocation to a residential home is under consideration. Since the care workers are engaged daily in defining care receivers’ needs and yet have no formal influence on care decisions in Sweden, the focus is on how they solve this dilemma. In this inductive study, the theoretical framework is based on occupational alliances, relationship-based practice, and discretion. Thirty-three care workers in home-help services are included in open semi-structured interviews. Prominent features in the findings are that the care workers take their stand at the borderland of care management, when they know or try to find out what is right. The conclusions drawn are that care workers find ways to informally influence the decision-making process, quite contrary to the idea of approaches referred to as purchaser/provider models. The implications for social work policy and practice are that a distinction between assessment and intervention may not benefit the field of eldercare and should therefore be regarded as an area in need of thorough reconsideration.

Avdelning/ar

  • Socialhögskolan

Publiceringsår

2020-06-16

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

369-383

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Ethics and Social Welfare

Volym

14

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

  • Social Work

Nyckelord

  • care management
  • care work
  • Older people

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1749-6535