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- Title
CHALLENGES WHILE CARING FOR OLDER PEOPLE IN THEIR HOMES.
- Authors
Rasnaca, Liga; Rezgale-Straidoma, Endija
- Abstract
In the start of the new millennium, the issues that are relating to ageing population draw attention of many policy makers as never before. The challenges that come with a rapidly aging population establish new relations between family, community and care organizations. The current study explores challenges in home care for older people in Oslo and Riga in comparative perspective. Authors explore what are the challenges in providing home care services for older people in Oslo and Riga. The study’s research design is qualitative comparative case study. Results have been conducted from document and literature review on home care policy in Norway and Latvia, semi-structured interviews and express interviews. The main results show that in both cases proper social work is underestimated.
- Subjects
OSLO (Norway); RIGA (Latvia); HOME care services; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Economic Science for Rural Development Conference Proceedings, 2018, Issue 49, p394
- ISSN
1691-3078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22616/ESRD.2018.158