Social Care and the Elderly

Edebalk, Per Gunnar; Lindgren, Björn

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-85170-4_7

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“…Swedish residential elder-care has undergone considerable changes over the last century. The large institutions where old and poor lived together with orphaned children and people with mental disorders or addictions (Edebalk and Lindgren 1996) have given way to the ‘homelike’ nursing homes of today. In the last decade, the government has further stressed the importance of enabling residents to live dignified lives and to exercise self-determination (Ministry of Health and Social Affairs 2009) in order to make nursing homes feel like ‘home’ and to counteract the worst of the reducing effects of these total institutions.…”

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A fun, active and sociable life on display – nursing home presentations on Instagram

Carlstedt

2018

Ageing and Society

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Swedish nursing homes' use of Instagram has increased vastly in the past few years. Instagram is understood as a means to manage the image they wish to mediate to the public. This article examines what is displayed in the nursing homes' Instagram accounts, and what kind of reality is thereby constructed. The data consist of  Instagram images from four nursing homes' Instagram accounts. It is found that nursing home life is primarily depicted on Instagram as active, sociable and fun, with informal, friendly relations between staff and residents, and residents able to continue to live as before, if not better, and to interact with surrounding society. Frailty, boredom, loneliness and death were absent from the data, as were mundane care activities. The article concludes that the presentations in the Instagram accounts challenge the traditional idea of nursing homes as total institutions, and the decline and loss associated with living in such institutions; however, there is a risk that these idyllic presentations conceal the inherent problems of nursing home life.

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A fun, active and sociable life on display – nursing home presentations on Instagram

Carlstedt

2018

Ageing and Society

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Widowhood-related mortality in Scania, Sweden during the 19th century

Nystedt¹

2002

The History of the Family

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Poor Men: On the Masculinization of Poverty in Sweden, 1957–1981

Broström

Rauhut²

2018

Scandinavian Journal of History

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This paper discusses the underlying causes behind the masculinization of poverty during the period of 1957-1981 in Sweden. Testable hypotheses are derived from a theoretical framework. The findings suggest that the male role as breadwinner disappeared during the analysed period. Lowly educated men and especially male immigrant labour lost their labour market position when industrial society gave way to a new post-industrial society, with an expanding service sector bringing numerous new employment opportunities for women. When sick or unemployed, social assistance was the only social security these men had available. On the other hand, the welfare-state expansion targeted women, particularly single mothers and widows, and thus reduced the number of native women claiming social assistance. The findings also point to the process character of the masculinization of poverty, arguing that women gained significantly more than men from the expansion of the welfare state.

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Social Care and the Elderly

Cited by 3 publications

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A fun, active and sociable life on display – nursing home presentations on Instagram

A fun, active and sociable life on display – nursing home presentations on Instagram

Widowhood-related mortality in Scania, Sweden during the 19th century

Poor Men: On the Masculinization of Poverty in Sweden, 1957–1981

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