Strategies of care: changing elderly care in Italy and the Netherlands

Monografie | Monograph

This analytic study surveys the transformations of elderly care policies and practices since the early 1990s, by comparing the trajectories of two extremely different care systems: Italy, a familialistic model with no relevant changes in social policies; and the Netherlands, a formal care model under restructuring. The author demonstrates that, in spite of strong policy pressures, the Dutch system remains a formal care model and represents a case of institutional and social resistance to welfare restructuring By contrast, the Italian system has shifted from family-based to a mix of family- and market-based model, despite the absence of substantial policy intervention. She argues that the ongoing changes need to be seen from a micro-to-macro perspective, considering the choices and strategies of the actors that are limited and conditioned by the institutional framework, but also represent possible forces of social change.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-90-8964-224-0
• Extent: Seite(n): 220
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Care & Welfare

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Familienpolitik, Jugendpolitik, Altenpolitik ; alter Mensch ; personenbezogene Dienstleistung ; Altenpflege ; Altenpolitik ; Italien ; organisatorischer Wandel ; Familienpflege ; Niederlande

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Da Roit, Barbara
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Amsterdam Univ. Press
• (where): Niederlande, Amsterdam
• (when): 2010

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-273469
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST