173 Informal family-based care work in the Austrian care arrangement NINE Informal family-based care work in the Austrian care arrangement Margareta Kreimer and Helene Schiffbänker This chapter focuses on the following question: how can (and does) care work within the family contribute to the social integration of women in Austria? Women still carry out the main part of care work. Austria seems to be an interesting example as major changes in the care arrangement towards payments for care have been realised during the last decade. A care allowance for people
57 Journal of Poverty and Social Justice • vol 23 • no 1 • 57–70 • © Policy Press 2015 • #JPSJ Print ISSN 1759 8273 • Online ISSN 1759 8281 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/175982715X14236418723004 article The new means-tested minimum income in Austria: discretion and regulation in practice Bettina Leibetseder, Johannes Kepler University, Austria bettina.leibetseder@jku.at Carina Altreiter, University of Vienna, Austria carina.altreiter@univie.ac.at Heinz Leitgöb, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany leitgoeb@soz.uni-frankfurt.de In 2010, the new means
-Ardévol (2019) found in her Peruvian study that older women were sometimes more proficient mobile phone users than men, which she attributes to their leading role in family communications. Contributing to this growing body of critical scholarly literature, this chapter reports on a mixed-methods study that has explored how older women in Austria use ICTs in their everyday lives, including both ‘old’ ICTs (radio, television and a landline phone) as well as ‘new’ ICTs (a mobile phone, computers such as PCs, laptops and tablets, and the internet) ( Ratzenböck, 2020 ). This
75 SiX Policy analysis in the German-speaking countries: common traditions, different cultures, in Germany, Austria and Switzerland nils C. Bandelow, Fritz Sager and Peter Biegelbauer Introduction Policy research has developed several perspectives, with scholars influenced by international developments in the discipline as well as their own respective political environment. To cover the global view, it is common practice to trace back recent research to the founding fathers of the discipline, with their competing ontological, epistemological, normative
Introduction The child has already been living in the household of the now adoptive parents for several years, thus adapting the legal status to the social status. The adoption therefore had to be approved. (Case AAUT05-17 from 2017 court judgment) Austria is a federal republic, consisting of nine states, with a child population of 1,535,958 as of 1 January 2019 (Statistik Austria, 2019a, 2019b). Austrian federalism is limited, in that only few legislative powers remain with the regional states (‘ Länder ’). The domain of child welfare and protection
35 TWO Tracing the historical and ideological roots of services for people with intellectual disabilities in Austria Gertraud Kremsner, Oliver Koenig and Tobias Buchner Setting the scene: discovering the past – dismantling the present This chapter focuses on how historical and contemporary influences have affected the development of policy and practice of services for people with intellectual disabilities in Austria. We start with an exploration of the production and development of eugenic discourses. We show how these discourses were explicitly adopted by
, 2016 ; Dong et al, 2019 ). Given the growing need for care of people living at home, however, it seems likely that more individuals will take advantage of family care in coming years. It is therefore not surprising that about 34 per cent of the European population in 20 countries can be designated as family carers ( Verbakel et al, 2017 ). In Austria, the Central European country and welfare state in which this study was conducted, this share was reported to be 21.1 per cent ( Verbakel et al, 2017 ). Based on another national study, an Austrian government report
141 ELEVEN Developments in Austrian care arrangements: women between free choice and informal care Margareta Kreimer Introduction In comparative research, Austria has been classified as a strong breadwinner state (Lewis and Ostner, 1994; Duncan, 1995), among other reasons because of the low level of formal care services. Millar and Warman (1995) describe the Austrian care system as based on a nuclear family model. Bettio and Plantenga (2004) characterise Austria (and Germany) as a publicly facilitated private care system, with a large private informal care sector
Introduction Seventy-eight per cent of the 8.7 million Austrians live in rural areas with limited or reduced access to specialised medical and psychosocial support services as compared with urban areas. With respect to dementia, Alzheimer Europe has estimated that approximately 145,431 people were living with dementia in Austria in 2013 (Alzheimer Europe, 2013 ) and according to Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI, 2015 ) it is estimated that the number of affected people will double every 20 years worldwide. Care cost attributed to dementia in Austria
Introduction How to manage support for elderly persons in need of care in times of demographic and societal change, as well as shifting labour market demands, has become a central question for all European societies. In countries like Austria and Germany, where the role of the family in long-term care provision has traditionally been strong, affordable professional care services are limited and cash-for-care programmes aim to stimulate domestic care, employing live-in migrant care workers 1 from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has become an increasingly
