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Better care, better work?:Reablement in Danish home care and the implications for care workers
No full textReablement is introduced with the aim of improving functioning in daily activities for older people but also has implications for care workers in changing the aim and tasks of the work. Using Danish reablement as a case study, this chapter looks into how reablement affects care work. It is based on qualitative interviews and survey data among Danish home care workers.Reablement is introduced with the aim of improving functioning in daily activities for older people, but also has implications for care workers in changing the aim and tasks of the work. Using Danish reablement as a case, this chapter looks into how reablement affects care work.It is based on qualitative interviews with reablement care workers in two local settings in Denmark in order to unfold their experiences of how reablement has changed their approach to their work and their understanding of quality of care. It also applies representative and national survey data among Danish care workers in order to understand the further implications for the attractiveness of working in the sector.Results show that the care workers find it attractive to work with reablement. Reablement appears to provide care workers with more professional autonomy and flexibility in the planning of their daily work while they also receive more support and attention from managers. The care workers find that the introduction of reablement enables them to better meet the clients’ individual needs and preferences. The new motivational approaches and working as change facilitators encouraging clients towards achieving independence is found meaningful and professionally rewarding by the care workers. The attractiveness of working with reablement means that they are less likely to want to quit their job.The results are important, since there is otherwise a high turnover in the home care workforce, and it is difficult to recruit young people to the sector
Perspectives on institutional characteristics, model features, and theories of reablement
No full textSets the scene for the investigation of the introduction of reablement in the seven countries presented in the book. The chapter provides country-specific demographic information and a presentation of how the long-term care systems in each country are situated in particular welfare regimes. It also takes a comparative perspective in the presentation of what characterises the reablement approach in the seven countries, before presenting more generic reablement model features and theoretical aspects for reablement
Introduction:The concept, rationale, and implications of reablement
Full text linkThe introduction sets the scene for the book by presenting how the change in demographics and in cultural approaches necessitates an active and enabling empowering approach in long-term care. It provides a definition of reablement and its component which is used throughout the book and describes the theoretical aspects of reablement. It also presents the chapters and provides a list of important terms used in the book.The introductory chapter presents the aim of the book and outlines the demographic and political context for the introduction of reablement. It also presents the definition of reablement which the chapters relate to and investigates the wider implications of introducing reablement, such as new understandings of need, power positions, and rationalities. The chapter ends with future considerations for the further spread of reablement
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