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Formal Service Provision and the Care of the Elderly at home in Ireland |
Larragy, Joe
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Social and demographic trends in Ireland pose the need to develop our
system of care for the elderly at home. Currently informal care is the principal source of
care for dependent elderly people with institutional care acting as the main alternative,
particularly when levels of dependency are high or where informal caring relationships
break down or are not possible. Although the past two decades have witnessed the growth
of formal community care services for the elderly there is still considerable scope for
extending and refining these services and, in particular, for making them more relevant to
heavily burdened informal carers. Substitutionality appears to be the governing principle
with formal and institutional services tending to step in only when the informal system
breaks down. The achievement of greater complementarity between the formal and
informal caring systems and the re-focusing of institutional services to provide support
for the community care system as a whole are the suggested priorities.
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Keyword(s):
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formal services; informal caregivers; institutional care; community care; Ireland |
Publication Date:
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1993 |
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Type:
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Journal article |
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Peer-Reviewed:
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Yes |
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Institution:
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Maynooth University |
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Citation(s):
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Larragy, Joe (1993) Formal Service Provision and the Care of the Elderly at home in Ireland. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 8 (4). pp. 371-374. ISSN 0169-3816 |
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Publisher(s):
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Kluwer Academic Publishers |
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File Format(s):
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other |
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Related Link(s):
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http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11191/1/JL_Formal_1993.pdf |
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