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Long-term care in Spain
— difficulties in professionalizing services | | Author(s) | Sara Morena-Colom, Carolina Recio Càceres, Teresa Torns Martín, Vicent Borràs Català |
| Journal title | Journal of Women and Aging, vol 29, no 3, 2017 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 200-215 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Services ; Long term ; Attitude ; The Family ; Women as carers ; Qualitative Studies ; Spain. |
| Annotation | Since 2006, Spanish law has recognised care as a subjective right, and regulations are being designed to create a framework for its professionalisation. Nowadays, the family remains the most important group of providers who care for their older relatives, and women remain the main informal caregivers. Why do families resist using public long-term care services and professional carers included in the new law? This article aims to analyse the difficulties in professionalising the long-term care system in Spain. It highlights sociocultural factors as an obstacle to professionalisation of long-term care services in addition to political and economic factors. The results show qualitative data about expectations, preferences and discourses that women caregivers have in relation to their responsibilities. The empirical material includes 25 interviews with different profiles of caregivers and six focus groups with family caregivers. The article suggests that the Spanish ideal of care is a problem for the professionalisation of services, because the family remains as the main provider of care without specific skills, knowledge or abilities. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170630223 A |
| Classmark | I: 4Q: DP: SJ: P6:SH: 3DP: 76S |
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