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Our societies are ageing, and we need to identify sustainable and person-centred solutions for supporting frail older people in their homes.
Reablement offers a radical new integrated care approach which supports older people to regain and maintain functioning and independence. This interdisciplinary book provides an introduction to the remarkable if haphazard international growth in reablement policies and practices in aged care over the past twenty years.
Incorporating theoretical and empirical research, it considers benefits for clients and care workers, cost-saving potentials and reablement provision also for persons with dementia. Finally, the book reflects on key findings, challenges and the way forward for long-term care for older people.
The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children. In this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as UK and the US, demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in the Nordic setting through family and social policies, and how these contribute to shaping and influencing the images, roles and practices of fathers in a diversity of family settings and variations of fatherhoods. This comprehensive volume will have wide international appeal for those who look to Nordic countries and their success in creating gender equal societies.
Reablement is introduced with the aim of improving functioning in daily activities for older people, but also has implications for care workers in changing the aim and tasks of the work. Using Danish reablement as a case, this chapter looks into how reablement affects care work.
It is based on qualitative interviews with reablement care workers in two local settings in Denmark in order to unfold their experiences of how reablement has changed their approach to their work and their understanding of quality of care. It also applies representative and national survey data among Danish care workers in order to understand the further implications for the attractiveness of working in the sector.
Results show that the care workers find it attractive to work with reablement. Reablement appears to provide care workers with more professional autonomy and flexibility in the planning of their daily work while they also receive more support and attention from managers. The care workers find that the introduction of reablement enables them to better meet the clients’ individual needs and preferences. The new motivational approaches and working as change facilitators encouraging clients towards achieving independence is found meaningful and professionally rewarding by the care workers. The attractiveness of working with reablement means that they are less likely to want to quit their job.
The results are important, since there is otherwise a high turnover in the home care workforce, and it is difficult to recruit young people to the sector.
In the Nordic countries gender equality concerns have led to the introduction of a non-transferable, use-it-or-lose-it father’s quota in the parental leave system, which gives fathers incentive to take leave. That is except for Denmark, where it was available only for a short duration of time. This chapter looks behind the political process of introducing and abolishing the quota and what have been the impact on male take-up of parental leave. The findings are that the introduction of the father’s quota is a politically risky project, not least in Denmark, where gender equality is of a more symbolic nature compared to the other Nordic countries. As for take-up, the findings are that the father’s quota stimulated initial take-up by fathers but after the abolishment we see an increasing discrepancy in take-up. Today, it is the more resourceful fathers with additional labour market rights to leave who tend to take up leave, implying that fathers today are positioned differently and have different opportunities to spend time with their children.
The introductory chapter presents the aim of the book and outlines the demographic and political context for the introduction of reablement. It also presents the definition of reablement which the chapters relate to and investigates the wider implications of introducing reablement, such as new understandings of need, power positions, and rationalities. The chapter ends with future considerations for the further spread of reablement.
sets the scene for the investigation of the introduction of reablement in the seven countries presented in the book. The chapter provides country-specific demographic information and a presentation of how the long-term care systems in each country are situated in particular welfare regimes. It also takes a comparative perspective in the presentation of what characterises the reablement approach in the seven countries, before presenting more generic reablement model features and theoretical aspects for reablement.
Our societies are ageing, and we need to identify sustainable and empowering solutions for supporting frail older people in their homes.
Reablement offers an approach that may reduce the need for long-term care by actually reducing need for care, as well as supporting quality of life. It offers a radical new integrated and interprofessional care approach which seeks to support older people to regain and maintain functioning and independence through training in daily activities.
Reablement implies the provision of active, person-centred, and goal-oriented support; it should be seen as an alternative to other types of support that merely compensate for care needs and thereby increase the risk of the client becoming passive. In fact, understanding the client’s own priorities and concepts of independence is considered to be key to the potential for enhanced effectiveness. In other words, reablement has the potential to change the way societies approach long-term care policies and implement them into practice.
This interdisciplinary book provides a comprehensive introduction to the remarkable, if haphazard, international growth in reablement practices and policies in aged care over the past 20 years. The book introduces reablement models, and their ideational foundation, implementation, and outcomes across the world. Incorporating theoretical and empirical research, it critically considers the benefits for older people and care workers, the cost-saving potential, and how reablement may be provided for persons with dementia. Finally, the book reflects on key findings, challenges, and the way forward for applying reablement in long-term care for older people.
Our societies are ageing, and we need to identify sustainable and empowering solutions for supporting frail older people in their homes.
Reablement offers an approach that may reduce the need for long-term care by actually reducing need for care, as well as supporting quality of life. It offers a radical new integrated and interprofessional care approach which seeks to support older people to regain and maintain functioning and independence through training in daily activities.
Reablement implies the provision of active, person-centred, and goal-oriented support; it should be seen as an alternative to other types of support that merely compensate for care needs and thereby increase the risk of the client becoming passive. In fact, understanding the client’s own priorities and concepts of independence is considered to be key to the potential for enhanced effectiveness. In other words, reablement has the potential to change the way societies approach long-term care policies and implement them into practice.
This interdisciplinary book provides a comprehensive introduction to the remarkable, if haphazard, international growth in reablement practices and policies in aged care over the past 20 years. The book introduces reablement models, and their ideational foundation, implementation, and outcomes across the world. Incorporating theoretical and empirical research, it critically considers the benefits for older people and care workers, the cost-saving potential, and how reablement may be provided for persons with dementia. Finally, the book reflects on key findings, challenges, and the way forward for applying reablement in long-term care for older people.
Our societies are ageing, and we need to identify sustainable and empowering solutions for supporting frail older people in their homes.
Reablement offers an approach that may reduce the need for long-term care by actually reducing need for care, as well as supporting quality of life. It offers a radical new integrated and interprofessional care approach which seeks to support older people to regain and maintain functioning and independence through training in daily activities.
Reablement implies the provision of active, person-centred, and goal-oriented support; it should be seen as an alternative to other types of support that merely compensate for care needs and thereby increase the risk of the client becoming passive. In fact, understanding the client’s own priorities and concepts of independence is considered to be key to the potential for enhanced effectiveness. In other words, reablement has the potential to change the way societies approach long-term care policies and implement them into practice.
This interdisciplinary book provides a comprehensive introduction to the remarkable, if haphazard, international growth in reablement practices and policies in aged care over the past 20 years. The book introduces reablement models, and their ideational foundation, implementation, and outcomes across the world. Incorporating theoretical and empirical research, it critically considers the benefits for older people and care workers, the cost-saving potential, and how reablement may be provided for persons with dementia. Finally, the book reflects on key findings, challenges, and the way forward for applying reablement in long-term care for older people.
Our societies are ageing, and we need to identify sustainable and empowering solutions for supporting frail older people in their homes.
Reablement offers an approach that may reduce the need for long-term care by actually reducing need for care, as well as supporting quality of life. It offers a radical new integrated and interprofessional care approach which seeks to support older people to regain and maintain functioning and independence through training in daily activities.
Reablement implies the provision of active, person-centred, and goal-oriented support; it should be seen as an alternative to other types of support that merely compensate for care needs and thereby increase the risk of the client becoming passive. In fact, understanding the client’s own priorities and concepts of independence is considered to be key to the potential for enhanced effectiveness. In other words, reablement has the potential to change the way societies approach long-term care policies and implement them into practice.
This interdisciplinary book provides a comprehensive introduction to the remarkable, if haphazard, international growth in reablement practices and policies in aged care over the past 20 years. The book introduces reablement models, and their ideational foundation, implementation, and outcomes across the world. Incorporating theoretical and empirical research, it critically considers the benefits for older people and care workers, the cost-saving potential, and how reablement may be provided for persons with dementia. Finally, the book reflects on key findings, challenges, and the way forward for applying reablement in long-term care for older people.
