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Support for very old people in Sweden and Canada
— the pitfalls of cross-cultural studies; same words, different concepts? | | Author(s) | Baukje Miedema, Jennifer de Jong |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 13, no 3, May 2005 |
| Pages | pp 231-238 |
| Source | www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Octogenarians ; Informal care ; Services ; Health services ; Comparison ; Cross cultural surveys ; Longitudinal surveys ; Theory ; Sweden ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The Swedish and Canadian 80+ studies are collecting longitudinal data regarding medical, psychological and sociological aspects of the lives of people aged 80+. Support is defined as care given either by friends and family (Informal support) or healthcare professionals (formal support). The present paper compares participant characteristics between two groups of 80 year olds from two study sites (Lund, Sweden and Ferderickson, New Brunswick, Canada), using the Swedish study site data. Only those who participated at ages 80 and 82 were included in the analyses. Cross-cultural comparison of the two groups of participants revealed dissimilar levels of support: Canadians reported receiving more informal and formal support compared to Sweden. This finding was despite the fact that the Swedish state provides more funded support than that of Canada to its citizens. Thus, the authors speculate that the concept of support has a different meaning in the two countries. This speculation raises concerns about cross-cultural studies, particularly when survey questions involve culturally ambiguous concepts such as the term "support". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050518210 A |
| Classmark | BBM: P6: I: L: 48: 3KA: 3J: 4D: 76P: 7S |
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