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Creating and sustaining disadvantage
— the relevance of a social exclusion framework | | Author(s) | Amanda M Grenier, Nancy Guberman |
| Journal title | Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 17, no 2, March 2009 |
| Pages | pp 116-124 |
| Source | http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Health services ; Services ; Isolation ; Social policy ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Over the last decade, public home-care services for older people have been subject to increased rationing and changes in resource allocation. The authors argue that a social exclusion framework can be used to explain the impacts of current policy priorities and organisational practices. In this paper, the framework of social exclusion is used to highlight the disadvantages experienced by older people, particularly those who cannot afford to supplement public care with private services. The argument is illustrated by drawing on examples from previous studies with people giving and receiving care in the province of Québec. The focus is on seven forms of exclusion: symbolic, identity, socio-political, institutional, economic, exclusion from meaningful relations, and territorial exclusion. These illustrations suggest that policy-makers, practitioners and researchers must address the various ways in which current policy priorities can create and sustain various types of exclusion. They also highlight the need to reconsider the current decisions made regarding the allocation of services for older people. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090304208 A |
| Classmark | L: I: TP: TM2: 7S |
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