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- Forssell, Emilia, et al.
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Anhörigomsorg mot betalning : Biståndshandläggare om sent-i-livet-invandares önskemål
- 2014
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Förbundet för forskning i socialt arbete (FORSA). - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 21:2, s. 114-137
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Artikeln diskuterar den ökande internationella migrationens utmaningar för äldreinriktat socialt arbete. Konkret undersöks erfarenheter hos äldreomsorgens biståndshandläggare gällande att möta sent-i-livet-invandrare som önskar anhörigomsorg med betalning genom anhöriganställning eller kontantbidrag. Biståndshandläggarna erfar situationer där de i rollen som myndighetsutövare upplever sig sakna såväl kunskap som resurser att hantera sådana önskemål.
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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
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Informell omsorg, socialt kapital och tillit
- 2006
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Ingår i: Det civila samhället som forskningsfält. - Stockholm : Riksbankens jubileumsfond i samarbete med Gidlund. - 9178447283 ; , s. 63-74
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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Integrationsarbete i civilsamhället : unga och äldre i blickfånget
- 2008
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Syftet med denna studie är att beskriva och analysera verksamheter och insatser inom frivilligorganisationer med en uttalad målsättning att öka integrationen av invandrade barn och unga respektive äldre i det svenska samhället.Materialinsamlingen har gjorts genom semistrukturerade, kvalitativa intervjuer med nyckelpersoner på lokalnivå i tolv organisationer med olika profil på tre sinsemellan olika orter. Intervjupersonerna, alla verksamma i det dagliga arbetet, uttalar sig om egna erfarenheter och synpunkter. Det är deras berättelser som utgör empirin här.
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- Forssell, Emilia
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Skyddandets förnuft : en studie om anhöriga till hjälpbehövande äldre som invandrat sent i livet
- 2004
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation aims to examine and deepen the knowledge of family member caregiving where the care recipient is an elderly person who immigrated late in life. It also aims to contribute to the knowledge of the complexities underlying informal care giving and add to our understandings of what it means to be an immigrant in Sweden. The caregiver is in focus. The research conducted is explorative and partly inductive. The main material used is a qualitative interview study carried out with family members from different countries who are providing informal care to elderly immigrant relatives. The analysis gives three patterns of caregiving. One shows help from informal caregivers only who are not compensated economically. Another shows help from family members who are compensated. The third shows help from family members and staff from the public care system. Three ideal-typical informal caregiver roles show different positions vis-à-vis the new: “guardian”, “filter” and “reinterpreter of traditional care ideals”. Swedish born and immigrated informal caregivers are also compared through analysis of data gathered in telephone interviews with a representative selection of inhabitants in the County of Stockholm.A philosophy of action together with theory on integration and multiculturalism serves as theoretical frameworks to understand discrepancies and ambiguities in the data. Young immigrants experience different integration processes than do the older ones. They strive to protect older family members from changes linked to the migration experience. Talk about dependence on culture underlines family feelings and legitimates the processes of protection. Preconceptions about great differences between Swedish born and immigrant families are not supported by quantitative data. A conclusion is that protection can be understood in relation both to the traditional and the new, the latter in the forms of meetings with Swedish society where unequal relations prevail. It is a kind of counter-strategy where the range of actions is diminished, and thus it has its own logic. Protection can be loosened up when the circumstances change and the range of actions grow.
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- Forssell, Emilia, et al.
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Social work, older people and migration : an overview of the situation in Sweden
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Ingår i: European Journal of Social Work. - London : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-1457 .- 1468-2664. ; 15:1, s. 115-130
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The globalisation of international migration is challenging social work practice in general and elder care in particular all across Europe. This article gives insight into social work practice with elderly people in Sweden by focusing on older migrants and their families. The article addresses the changes that Swedish elder care has undergone through the past few decades and how elder care is organised. The cases of two migrant families who care for their elderly relatives are described also in an attempt to draw attention to some of the specific challenges that social work practice with older migrants and their families can pose. The article argues that social work practice with these specific populations needs to become aware of the implications that understandings of ethnic ‘Otherness’ have for how elder care is planned and provided. Moreover, it is argued that the globalisation of international migration we are witnessing across Europe and the ethnic diversity in older populations that it brings about demand that social work is delivered in a more generationally aware way. Aiming to solely increase the social integration of older migrants can end up jeopardizing the social and economic integration of their families.
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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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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Olaison, Anna, 1974-, et al.
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Care managers understandings of gender and ethnic otherness in needs assessments with elderly migrant clients
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background and purpose: This project departs from the research gaps that exist in the debate on institutional categorization as far as the implications of gender and ethnic ‘otherness’ are concerned. There is also a gap in the manner in which such understandings affect the political economy of care that this project aims to address. The project focuses on need assessment practice within the context of Swedish elderly care and aims to explore if and how understandings of cross-cultural care interaction, ethnic ‘Otherness’ and gender affect the manners in which need assessment processes legitimize and restrict access to certain elderly care services. This presentation is based on an ongoing study focusing on the understandings that care managers of elderly care uphold in order to legitimize the services that they make available to elderly care applicants. Data for the study were collected through focus groups interviews with care managers.Results: The findings from the study suggests that care managers understandings of ethnic 'Otherness' do affect the need assessment process and that alternative elderly care services are being designed as a result of it which differentiate between older people with migrant backgrounds and those who belong to the ethnic majority population. As such, a differentiation is being made between migrant elders and Swedish elders in a manner that resembles the 'us' and 'them' dynamics that characterize power un-awared ethnic relations. The presentation will address how the understandings of the care managers in question are constructed.Conclusion and implications: The presentation will contribute to the debate on institutional categorization in social work and how lack of an awareness of implications on ethnic otherness influence power differentials and the manner in which welfare services are distributed.Key words: Needs assessment, elderly care, gender, ethnic otherness, migrant clients
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- Olaison, Anna, 1974-, et al.
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Decision making in social work case files : the role that background, gender and age can play in the clientization of older people
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This presentation departs from the ongoing debate on the role that documentation plays in the decision making processes of older people’s needs within social work. It is based on a study of documentation within need assessment practice in Swedish elderly care. The aim is to shed light on whether foreign-born background or native-born background, gender and age have any relevance to the ways in which older people’s needs are described in the case files that are used in this practice. The data – which has been analyzed using quantitative content analysis and multiple regression analysis - is comprised of case files (n=202) containing investigations (n=488) into requests for welfare services. The results of the analysis show that, women were granted home care (including practical services) more often than men. Foreign-born older people were granted home care grants to a greater extent than Swedish-born older people. Regarding the parts where judgments and decisions are made, there are differences in terms of how decisions are justified and presented in the case files: foreign-born older people’s assistance needs are more often connected to motivations about the additional workload that their relatives perform. The results partially support the critical debate about how clients are constructed through decision making processes in social work documentation. The study also adds new knowledge to this discussion by showing that categories such as gender and having a foreign-born background and to some extent also age makes a difference in relation to which services are being granted and to the way in which needs get documented. As such, the presentation will contribute to the debate on the challenges that a social justice and human rights- informed practice poses for documentation practices in social work and raises questions about the manner in which decision making processes are conducted
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- Olaison, Anna, 1974-, et al.
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Documentation in need assessment practice: the role that foreign-born background, gender and age can play in the clientization of older people in social work case files
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Aim: To explore whether foreign-born background and gender have any relevance to the ways in which older people’s needs are described in case files used in need assessment practice within Swedish elderly care.Methods: The data – which has been analyzed using quantitative and qualitative content analysis - is comprised of case files (n=202) containing investigations (n=488) into requests for welfare services.Findings: The analysis suggests that the backgrounds in question have relevance for the documentation of needs in case files. Differences between how the needs of Swedish-born and foreign-born older people are described in these case files can be discerned.Conclusion: The findings raise questions about the implications that different backgrounds can have in case documentation and the ways in which this may impact resource allocation within elderly care. As such, these findings problematize the role that background can have for constructions of ‘clienthood’ in need assessment practice.
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- Olaison, Anna, 1974-, et al.
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Documentation practices in need assessment : the role that institutional categorization plays in the clientization of older migrants
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Ingår i: Paper presented at the Invited Symposium titled 'Institutional categorization in elderly care'.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This presentation departs from the ongoing debate on the role that institutional categorization plays in the clientization of people within social work and the need for documentation studies about welfare services. It is based on a study of need assessment practice within the context of Swedish elderly care. The data is comprised of focus groups interviews with 60 care managers and 202 case files (101 described cases with older people that have migrant backgrounds and 101 with people born in Sweden). This presentation aims to shed light on how care managers experience documentation and how older people’s needs are described in the case files that are used in needs assessment practice. It will address the challenges that care managers describe regarding the documentation process and the differences found: in case files involving older people with migrant backgrounds in comparison to those involving older people born in Sweden. The former were described in a more comprehensive way as far as health status and social networks are concerned. The results suggest that documentation in need assessment practice builds on categorization that is guided by assumptions about who migrants are and what their needs may be. As such, the presentation will contribute to the debate on institutional categorization and raises questions about how ethnic ‘Otherness’ influences case documentation.
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- Olaison, Anna, 1974-, et al.
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Documentation practices in need assessment: an analysis of descriptions of older people in social work case files
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This presentation departs from the ongoing debate on the role that documentation plays in the clientization of people within social work. It is based on a study of documentation within the context of need assessment practice in Swedish elderly care. The aim is to shed light on how older people’s needs are described in the case files that are used in this practice. The data is comprised of case files (N=202), containing investigations (N=488). Half of the case files concern older people with a Swedish background and half older people with an foreign-background. The results show that, on the whole, the documentation adheres to a standardized template including set headings under which older people and their needs are described in a similar manner. However, in the parts of the assessment that deal with social relations and health status, there are clear differences between how Swedish-born and foreign-born older people are described in terms of level of detail and what information is presented. Regarding the parts where judgments and decisions are made, there are differences in terms of how decisions are justified and presented: foreign-born older people’s assistance needs are more often connected to the additional workload that their relatives perform. The results partially support the critical debate about how clients are constructed in social work documentation. The study also adds new knowledge to this discussion by showing that there is an active categorization process in need assessment documentation in which older people in investigations are described in different ways. As such, the presentation will contribute to the debate on the challenges that documentation practices pose for social work and raises questions about how gender and background influence case documentation.
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- Olaison, Anna, 1974-, et al.
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Dokumentationens roll för klientskapande processer i äldreinriktat socialt arbete : Spelar utlandsfödd bakgrund, kön och ålder någon roll?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - Huddinge : Sociologisk Forskning, Swedish Sociological Association. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 58:3, s. 287-310
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Baserat på en explorativ studie behandlar denna artikel frågan om utrikesfödd bakgrund, kön och ålder har någon betydelse för behovsbedömningsdokumentation inom svensk äldreomsorg. Med hjälp av kvantitativ innehållsanalys och multipel logistisk regressionsanalys av akter (n=202) innehållande utredningar (n=489) av ansökningar om välfärdstjänster, undersöker denna studie om identifikationsgrunder för äldre har någon betydelse för dokumentationspraktiker. Innehållsanalysen visade att beskrivningar i akterna av utlandsfödda äldre är mer omfattande än beskrivningarna av svenskfödda. Den multipla logistiska regressionsanalysen tyder på att kön och bakgrund verkar vara relevant för hur beslut motiverades i akterna. Ålder är inte lika relevant som de andra kategorierna. Det väsentligaste fyndet är att utlandsfödda äldre i detta material beviljas hemvårdsbidrag i större utsträckning än svenskfödda. Resultaten stöder delvis den kritiska debatten om hur klienter konstrueras i dokumentation av socialt arbete eftersom de indikerar att bakgrund, kön och ålder kan spela roll för hur äldre människors ansökningar om omsorgsinsatser behandlas i akter.
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Dokumentationens roll för klientskapande processer i äldreinriktat socialt arbete : Spelar utlandsfödd bakgrund, kön och ålder någon roll? : [The role of documentation for client construction processes in gerontological socialwork : Does foreign-born background, gender, and age matter?]
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sociologisk Forskning, Swedish Sociological Association. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 58:3, s. 287-310
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Baserat på en explorativ studie behandlar denna artikel frågan om utrikesfödd bakgrund, kön och ålder har någon betydelse för behovsbedömningsdokumentation inom svensk äldreomsorg. Med hjälp av kvantitativ innehållsanalys och multipel logistisk regressionsanalys av akter (n=202) innehållande utredningar (n=489) av ansökningar om välfärdstjänster, undersöker denna studie om identifikationsgrunder för äldre har någon betydelse för dokumentationspraktiker. Innehållsanalysen visade att beskrivningar i akterna av utlandsfödda äldre är mer omfattande än beskrivningarna av svenskfödda. Den multipla logistiska regressionsanalysen tyder på att kön och bakgrund verkar vara relevant för hur beslut motiverades i akterna. Ålder är inte lika relevant som de andra kategorierna. Det väsentligaste fyndet är att utlandsfödda äldre i detta material beviljas hemvårdsbidrag i större utsträckning än svenskfödda. Resultaten stöder delvis den kritiska debatten om hur klienter konstrueras i dokumentation av socialt arbete eftersom de indikerar att bakgrund, kön och ålder kan spela roll för hur äldre människors ansökningar om omsorgsinsatser behandlas i akter.
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