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- Title
Service Users' Decision-Making During Transition to Long-Term Care: Social Workers' and Older People's Perspectives.
- Authors
Wamara, Charles Kiiza; Naumiuk, Agnieszka
- Abstract
As the world's population rapidly ages, older people are increasingly placed in long-term care institutions. Although this global trend is supposed to protect older people, it is unclear whether they have any voice in decisions about such placements. The aim of this paper is to report a qualitative study into whether and to what degree social workers involve older people in these decisions. The study employed in-depth semi-structured interviews, focused group discussion, sociograms, and the daily and weekly schedules of 17 respondents (7 social workers and 10 older people in long-term care) in Warsaw, Poland. The findings show that social workers did involve older people, but only in minor decisions after their placement to help them adapt to the new situation. This practice seems to be attributable to neoliberal and managerial tendencies in the policy guidelines that social workers must follow in performing inherently relational tasks. The paper concludes by outlining the implications of these findings for social work.
- Subjects
POLAND; SOCIAL support; TRANSITIONAL care; SOCIAL workers; RESEARCH methodology; CONSUMER attitudes; INTERVIEWING; QUALITATIVE research; MEDICAL protocols; DECISION making; HEALTH attitudes; RESEARCH funding; POLICY sciences; LONG-term health care; SOCIAL case work
- Publication
Ageing International, 2023, Vol 48, Issue 1, p316
- ISSN
0163-5158
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12126-021-09474-2