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Blurring and Bridging: The Role of Volunteers in Dementia Care within Homes and Communities.
- Source :
- Journal of Social Policy; Jul2020, Vol. 49 Issue 3, p622-642, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Policy makers across the political spectrum have extolled the virtues of volunteering in achieving social policy aims. Yet little is known about the role that volunteering plays in addressing one of the significant challenges of an ageing population: the provision of care and support to people with dementia. We combine organisational survey data, secondary social survey data, and in-depth interviews with people with dementia, family carers and volunteers in order to better understand the context, role and challenges in which volunteers support people with dementia. Social policies connecting volunteering and dementia care in homes and communities often remain separate and disconnected and our paper draws on the concept of policy 'assemblages' to suggest that dementia care is a dynamic mixture of formal and informal volunteering activities that bridge and blur traditional policy boundaries. Linking home and community environments is a key motivation, benefit and outcome for volunteers, carers and those living with dementia. The paper calls to widen the definition and investigation of volunteering in social policy to include and support informal volunteering activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ALTRUISM
CAREGIVERS
COMMUNITIES
DEMENTIA patients
HOUSING
INTERPERSONAL relations
INTERVIEWING
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL care
MOTIVATION (Psychology)
PATIENTS
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
SOCIAL networks
SOCIAL role
VOLUNTEER service
VOLUNTEERS
GOVERNMENT policy
HOME environment
MULTIPLE regression analysis
PSYCHOSOCIAL factors
SECONDARY analysis
SOCIAL support
THEMATIC analysis
DATA analysis software
STATISTICAL models
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00472794
- Volume :
- 49
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Social Policy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 143796190
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279419000692