AGEING POPULATIONS AND SOCIAL CARE: POLICY ISSUES

Reconstructing Social Policy and Ageing

This article draws from the work of Michel Foucault to reconstruct an understanding of social policy and ageing in contemporary Britain. In many ways, policy provides three trajectories for older people; first, as independent self-managing consumers with private means and resources; second, as people in need of some support to enable them to continue to self-manage and third, as dependent and u...

Social policy and population ageing: challenges for north and south.

Exclusion of Ageing in Social Policy Analyzing Development Plans after the Revolution

The living of the elderly has been turned into a problematic issue affected by social, cultural and economic changes, however, this problematic is not registered in policy makings and there is not appropriate social polices associated to the elderly. The subject of the current study is observe social policies in the context of development plans after the Revolution, to discover overt and covert...

Delivery care policy: social dimensions.

Firstly, in regard to community perceptions concerning the advantages and disadvantages of institutional delivery care at the household level, results show that many non-users of health services held negative views on the attitude of health care providers. The findings do not stipulate which income or education strata of society actually hold this view; but future behaviour change communication...

Changing concepts in ageing: a social policy perspective

In this paper the changes in Australia’s aged care policies in the context of demographic, economic, social and ideological factors are explored. Through the 20th century the policies of federal and state governments have resulted in a system of age pensions, residential and communitybased long-term care. This system is supported by a wide range of services in both public and private sectors, w...