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- Forssell, Emilia, 1963-, et al.
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Care managers' experiences of cross-cultural needs assessment meetings : the case of late-in-life immigrants
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Ingår i: Ageing & Society. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0144-686X .- 1469-1779. ; 35:3, s. 576-601
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research on care managers' experiences of the needs assessment process is scarce even though the literature on needs assessment practice is relatively extensive. One of the research areas that has not received attention yet is the way in which care managers experience the challenges that are presumably posed by increased ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious diversity among prospective elder care recipients. This article addresses this research gap. It is based on a project that aims to shed light on care managers' experiences of the needs assessment process in general and cross-cultural needs assessment meetings in particular. The data are constituted of focus group interviews with care managers in Sweden (N=60). In this article we focus on care managers' experiences of needs assessment with older people who have immigrated late-in-life, who come from cultures considered different from the Swedish one and who have not mastered the Swedish language. This was the group of older people that the care managers mostly thought of when asked to describe their experiences of cross-cultural needs assessment meetings. The interviewed care managers discussed the challenges that these meetings present, which were related to communication due to language barriers, different demands and expectations, insecurity regarding what is customary in such meetings, as well as perceived passivity among late-in-life immigrants. The article discusses the contributions of the findings to research on care management practices in general, as well as to needs assessment practice in particular.
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- Forssell, Emilia, 1963-
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Transnational Ageing, Care Needs and the Welfare State
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Ingår i: Transnational Social Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2193-1674 .- 2196-145X. ; 13:1, s. 83-99
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The main purpose of this article is to discuss the role of the Swedish welfare state in transnational migration contexts involving older people in need of care. A pilot study about experiences and perspectives among care managers in the state elderly care sector forms the empirical point of departure. Late-in-life-immigrants come into focus here, which is an empirical result of the care managers´ perspectives. The article shows concrete examples of how care needs may be met through a combination of public elderly care, efforts by members of informal networks, and by the older people themselves travelling back and forth across national borders. An important finding is that care managers may have a comprehensive but tacit knowledge of the transnational mobility of this category of older care users. Their awareness of their own role in the transnational contexts seems to remain quite limited. Late-in-life immigrants to Sweden who are involved in transmigration processes are obviously dependent on the care managers’ professional autonomy and ability to take advantage of the legislation´s scope for individual assessments and special solutions.
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Med kärlek till det oordnade
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Ingår i: Med kärlek till det oordnade. - Stockholm : Ersta Sköndal högskola. - 9789163786297 ; , s. 17-24
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