Care for older people between state and family : care patterns among social home care users

Hlebec, Valentina (author), Nagode, Mateja (author), Filipovič Hrast, Maša (author)

As in other countries, the family is the main provider of care for older people in Slovenia. However, with the development of social home care in the 1990s, an important addition to informal care has been introduced. The first Slovenian representative survey of social home care users (2013) has been used to assess the care arrangements among users of social home care and the impact of both need across activities of daily living and the availability of informal care networks on care arrangements. The level of functional impairment (an indicator of need) and household composition (an indicator of availability of crucial elements of an informal care network) have proved to be indicative of the levels of usage of particular care arrangements; distinguishing between informal care only, formal care only, and mixed care.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2014
• Number of pages: Str. 886-903, 999
• Numbering: Letn. 51, št. 5
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-85337
• UDC: 364-053.88(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 32976477
• Publication date in RUL: 20.09.2016

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

Podobno kot drugod tudi v Sloveniji v skrbi za starejše prevladuje družina kot pomemben ponudnik skrbi in opore. Vendar pa je razvoj oskrbe na domu v devetdesetih letih prejšnjega stoletja prinesel novega pomembnega akterja na tem področju. Na podatkih prve reprezentativne slovenske raziskave uporabnikov pomoči na domu (2013) so bili analizirani tipi oskrbe uporabnikov pomoči na domu ter vpliv dveh dejavnikov nanje, in sicer potreba po pomoči pri posameznih aktivnostih vsakdanjega življenja ter dostopnost neformalnega omrežja. Rezultati analize pokažejo na ključnen pomen stopnje funkcionalne sposobnosti starejše osebe in pa sestave gospodinjstva na uporabo različnih tipov oskrbe - pri čemer smo razlikovali med izključno neformalno oskrbo, izključno formalno oskrbo ter kombinacijo neformalne in formalne oskrbe.

• Keywords: socialno varstvo, pomoč na domu