Care Arrangements among Social Home Care Users in Slovenia

• Authors: Valentina Hlebec

Title variants

PL

Organizacja opieki pomiędzy osobami świadczącymi usługi społeczne w zakresie opieki domowej w Słowenii

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

With transition process in Slovenia, starting in 1991, also care for older people was considerably transformed. Policy measures and new services for older people living at home and their informal, mostly family, carers were the most essential contribution in this area. Social home care, as one of these services, is the focus of the paper. The first Slovenian representative survey of social home care users (2013) was used to assess the care arrangements among users of social home care. Multiple cluster analysis for symbolic data (no care, formal care only, informal care only, mixed care) carried out on 22 activities of daily living, discovered five groups of social home care users. Clusters were empirically aligned with availability of informal care network and need for care. Care arrangements empirically show compensatory and supplementary function of formal care in complementary model. Social home care was the most frequently selected additional source of care in assessment of future need for care across all clusters, with informal network being the second most frequently selected source.

PL

W 1991roku w Słowenii rozpoczął się proces transformacji, któremu towarzyszyła spora zmiana modelu opieki nad starszymi osobami: nowe usługi dla osób starszych mieszkających w domu i ich nieformalnych, w wielu przypadkach spokrewnionych, opiekunów. Tematem artykułu jest opieka domowa oparta na zasadach pomocy społecznej, stanowiąca jedną z tych nowych usług. Pierwsze reprezentatywne badanie dotyczące użytkowników tej formy opieki domowej dla Słowenii (2013) zostało wykorzystane do przeprowadzenia oceny obejmującej osoby powiązane z opieką domową. Analiza wielu podzbiorów (Multiple cluster analysis) danych symbolicznych (brak opieki, wyłącznie formalna opieka, wyłącznie nieformalna opieka, opieka mieszana) przeprowadzona dla 22 codziennych czynności wykazała, że istnieje pięć grup osób działających w ramach usług społecznych opieki domowej. Podzbiory empirycznie przyporządkowano do dostępności sieci opieki nieformalnej i zapotrzebowania na opiekę. Ustalenia w zakresie opieki empirycznie wykazują funkcję kompensacyjną i uzupełniającą opieki formalnej w komplementarnym modelu. Opiekun domowy świadczący usługi społeczne był najczęściej wybieranym dodatkowym źródłem opieki w ramach oceny przyszłego zapotrzebowania na opiekę wśród wszystkich podzbiorów, natomiast sieć nieformalna stanowiła drugie najczęściej wybierane źródło.

Keywords

EN

older people; social home care; formal care

PL

opieka; opieka domowaSłowenia; ludzie starzy

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Socjologiczne
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 2(217)
• Pages: 75-96

Contributors

author

Valentina Hlebec

• Uniwersity of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences

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