Sustainable care in a familialist regime : coping with elderly care in Slovenia

Filipovič Hrast, Maša (avtor), Hlebec, Valentina (avtor), Rakar, Tatjana (avtor)

In countries with prevalent family care and less developed care services, it is important to understand the ways families cope with the care needs of their frail family members as part of policy learning to make care systems more sustainable. Filial care is a vital element of family care, yet is significantly restrained by the involvement of carers in the labour market; unequal gender distribution of the care burden; and insufficient recognition of, and policy support, for family care. This article considered the issue of the sustainability of elderly care in a familialist country, Slovenia, by identifying the coping strategies families adopt for the provision of care. To this end, in-depth qualitative databased on a purposeful sample of 55 community-resident users of social home care services and their 55 family carers were used. We identified five external coping strategies: use of formal care services, use of extended family network, use of wider community network, cohabitation, and home adjustments. Among internal strategies, we detected work-related adjustments; abandoning leisure activities; abandoning vacations; establishing new routines; accepting and finding satisfaction in care; increased psychological distress, such as worries and overburdening; and some unmet care recipient needs. Very few strategies may be described as supported by policy actions, despite such support being essential for increasing the sustainability of the family-based care model.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: care system, familialism, Slovenia, coping strategies, carers, care users
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FDV - Fakulteta za družbene vede ; ZF - Zdravstvena fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2020
• Št. strani: 15 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. 12, iss. 20, art. 8498
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134457
• UDK: 364-783(497.4)
• ISSN pri članku: 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su12208498
• COBISS.SI-ID: 33006595
• Datum objave v RUL: 17.01.2022

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Sustainability
• Skrajšan naslov: Sustainability
• Založnik: MDPI
• ISSN: 2071-1050
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5324897

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.
• Začetek licenciranja: 15.10.2020

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: nega starostnikov, nega na domu, družina, negovalci, Slovenija

Projekti

• Financer: ARRS - Agencija za raziskovalno dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: J5-8235
• Naslov: Prepoznavanje in razumevanje vloge dejavnikov države blaginje za oskrbo starih ljudi živečih v skupnosti v Sloveniji in Avstriji

• Financer: ARRS - Agencija za raziskovalno dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P5-0200
• Naslov: Kakovost življenja družbenih skupin