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| Scandinavian contrasts and Norwegian variations in special housing for older people | | Author(s) | Svein Olav Daatland, Karin Hoyland, Berit Otnes |
| Journal title | Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol 29, nos 1-2, January-June 2015 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, January-June 2015 |
| Pages | pp 180-196 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Independent housing ; Sheltered housing ; Care homes ; Social welfare ; Comparison ; Denmark ; Sweden ; Norway. |
| Annotation | De-institutionalisation is a general trend for Scandinavian long-term care over the last decades. Denmark and Sweden have taken this trend a step further than Norway has: Denmark suspended institutional care altogether in 1987, and Sweden in 1992. Since then, residential care has been provided to individuals in special housing in various forms. This housing is in principle "independent housing", where residents are tenants and are provided services according to needs and not sites. This article concentrates on the Norwegian variations to this system, as this is the only country of the three that still provides residential care under two "regimes": institutional care and assisted housing. Is assisted housing essentially different from institutional care, or is it better described as old wine in new bottles? The latter may be the case for Sweden, whereas Denmark stands out as having the most housing-oriented care model. Institutional care (i.e. nursing homes) still dominates in Norway, where assisted housing is merely a minor supplement to institutional care in most municipalities. This article explores the reasons for these trends and, in particular, the reasons for the Norwegian resistance to assisted housing as an alternative form of residential care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150724220 A |
| Classmark | KL: KLA: KW: TY: 48: 76K: 76P: 76N |
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