Characteristics of workers in services for elderly people in Sweden, United Kingdom, Spain and Hungary

• Authors: Racz A.
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

Demographic and social changes such as longer life expectancy, changes in patterns of family caring and increased rates of employment among mothers mean that demand for care work services will grow in the foreseeable future. Change produces not only new needs and expectations, but new understandings of care and its relationship to other fields of human welfare, including education and health. The paper studies the social-economic status of Swedish, English, Spanish and Hungarian care workers in the field of elderly care, what kind of career led them to work with the elderly, how they think about social care and the importance of their work, how they harmonize work and family life. Finally, few questions surface about the future challenges working with the elderly, independent of social care model or welfare system in the four countries.

Keywords

EN

CARE WORKERS FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE; SOCIAL CARE SYSTEM

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Department of Economics and Law, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Tarsadalomkutatas (Social Science Research)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 285-301
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Racz A.

• A. Racz, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07HUAAAA02976070