ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Social Care Work Around the World provides both a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. It is the first handbook to cover social care work research from around the world, including both low- and middle-income countries as well as high income countries.
Each of the 22 chapters are written by experts on long-term care services, particularly for older people and cover key issues and debates, based on research evidence, on social care work in a specific country. They look at perspectives of social care work from the macro level: the structural conditions for long-term care, including demographic challenges and the long-term care policy, the meso level: the level of provider organizations and intermediaries, and the micro level: views of care workers, care users, and unpaid informal carers. Furthermore, they discuss a number of topics central to discussions of care work including marketization, personalization policies, policy implementation under austerity, the provision of social care work whether through public services, or private arrangements, or mixed types, funding, the feminization of social care and the new role that technology, and robots can play in care work.
By drawing together leading scholars from around the world, this book provides an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research. This book is both an invaluable resource for scholars and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom and will be of interest to students, academics, social workers, social policy-makers and human service professionals.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|45 pages
Nordic countries
chapter 3|13 pages
Organizational trends impacting on everyday realities
part II|97 pages
Northern and Western Europe
chapter 7|14 pages
The development of an ambiguous care work sector in France
chapter 8|14 pages
Care provision inside and outside the professional care system
chapter 9|12 pages
Employing migrant care workers for 24-hour care in private households in Austria
part III|28 pages
Eastern Europe
chapter 11|12 pages
Post-socialist eldercare in the Czech Republic
chapter 12|14 pages
Imbalance between demand and supply of long-term care
part IV|16 pages
Between Europe and Asia
part V|69 pages
Asia
chapter 16|13 pages
Migrant live-in care workers in Taiwan
chapter 17|15 pages
Has the long-term care insurance contributed to de-familialization?
part VI|30 pages
North America
chapter 19|16 pages
Long-term services and supports for the elderly in the United States
chapter 20|12 pages
Complexities, tensions, and promising practices
part VII|15 pages
Australia
part VIII|15 pages
Latin America