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Between migrant care work and new occupational welfare tools: Changing home care arrangements in Italy
No full textAusterity measures on services provision, introduced due to recent economic crises, have stimulated the search for innovative welfare solutions, including options that are not directly or entirely funded by public sources. In Italy, recent legislation has promoted the development of occupational welfare (OW) measures, aimed at strengthening the supply of services to support employees with informal (elder) care responsibilities. This paper aims to describe how the newly introduced OW schemes might innovate existing care arrangements, by identifying their impact on the different actors involved in home care provision (care recipients, family carers, home care service providers and migrant care workers), as well as at a macro level in terms of promoting social innovation. The international relevance of the Italian case comes from the fact that it is one of the more representative familistic care regimes, largely characterized by home care provided by informal carers and migrant care workers (MCW). The importance of Italian OW schemes is increasing, and in 2018 their presence in company-level bargaining agreements grew by more than 15%. A rapid review of the literature and expert interviews allowed us to describe the complex Italian OW schemes system, and to identify the positive implications of their application for the country’s long-term care (LTC) context, underlining what makes these measures a clear example of “social innovation” likely to have a future positive impact on home-based care in Italy
Caring for a family member with dementia:Evidence from a cross-sectional comparative study on caregiver burden and psychological well-being
No full textServizi di supporto per famigliari caregivers di persone anziane in Italia: tipologia e caratteristiche
No full textCountering Inequalities in Informal Care of Frail Older People: Preliminary Results from a Participatory Study on Italian Regional Policies
No full textOptimization of a NdFeB permanent magnet configuration for in-vivo drug delivery experiments
No full textWe propose a new concept of magnetic focusing for targeting and accumulation of functionalized superparamagnetic nanoparticles in living organs through composite configurations of different permanent magnets. The proposed setups fulfill two fundamental requirements for in vivo experiments: 1) reduced size of the magnets to best focusing on small areas representing the targeted organs of mice and rats and 2) maximization of the magnetic driving force acting on the magnetic nanoparticles dispersed in blood. To this aim, several configurations of permanent magnets organized with different degrees of symmetry have been tested. The product B·gradB proportional to the magnetic force has been experimentally measured, over a wide area (20 × 20 mm2), at a distance corresponding to the hypothetical distance of the mouse organ from the magnets. A non-symmetric configuration of mixed shape permanent magnets resulted in particularly promising to achieve the best performances for further in vivo experiments
La cura informale di persone anziane con bisogni di LTC: raccomandazioni dai principali framework internazionali
No full textIsolamento sociale e qualità di vita degli anziani fragili in Europa: uno sguardo comparativo
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