The following thesis presents an overview of different domiciliary care services in Slovenia since its establishment as an independent state and provides contextualization for the changes occurring within these systems. The first part of the text focuses on outlining social movements, conceptual shifts and changes in welfare policy that influenced the developing systems of domiciliary care – calls for deinstitutionalization, the concept of long-term care and the persistent shift towards neosocial policies focusing on activating the individual. Following this, a more detailed account of the regulations, funding and changes within specific services is presented, predominantly using family help at home as an example, since most domiciliary care is provided through this service. The problems originating in localized funding, fiscal and temporal inaccessibility of the service, as well as the workload of domiciliary care workers are then analyzed in comparison to a newly established system of personal assistance. The future of existing and prospective public domiciliary care services is then analyzed within the framework of long-term care legislation, while highlighting the effects of chronic worker shortage and its influence on employment policies.
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