Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture

Schrage-Früh, Michaela; Tracy, Tony

doi:10.4324/9781003240532

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“…the period including the pandemic’s first lockdown, 92 million hours of informal care have been provided in the UK to people with dementia in their own homes. There was significant media attention on how older people in care homes were devalued by the medical establishment and politicians ( O’Neill, 2020 ), and there was broad press coverage regarding the ageist nature of shielding strategies ( Schräge-Früh & Tracy, 2020 ). Yet, comparatively little attention was paid to the situation of informal carers, who were unable to receive hands-on support during and beyond the first lockdown between March and June 2020, let alone the longer and harder winter lockdown 2020/21 (but see Cahill, 2020 ).…”

Section: National Funding Versus Local Implementation: Covid-19 As Sp...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Informal dementia care: The carer’s lived experience at the divides between policy and practice

Britton¹,

Zimmermann

2022

Dementia

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Support for informal dementia care at a local community level is not working for most carers today. Carers looking after a person with dementia have long lamented the absence of an empowered named support and an effectively actioned care plan. Drawing on literary writing and social research, we argue in this article that these challenges have existed since dementia emerged as a major condition in the West during the 1980s. Based on this historical context, we ask: Why has this issue persisted over the last four decades? How have healthcare politics and policy initiatives responded to these requests? And what can we learn from this for the current, COVID-19 exacerbated crisis of care? This article focuses on the English context, to discuss these ongoing challenges in the light of a series of policy papers, and to ask what is hampering the implementation of such policy initiatives. In England, local authorities are responsible for dementia support. This article focuses on the situation in a county in the Midlands where one of us (AB) has been lobbying local government for over a decade. The discussion contextualises the lived experience of dementia care within the situation exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuing politics of crises and persistent emphasis on cure over care. We find that the absence on two points centrally challenges care: a joined-up approach between health and social care and adequate information on available care support services, accessible through an empowered named contact. To enhance the lived experience of dementia care, consistent provision of individual named support and professional care support, as and when required, should become essential to local implementation of the care policy.

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Section: National Funding Versus Local Implementation: Covid-19 As Sp...mentioning

confidence: 99%