This survey analyses the scope and intensity of informal care for the elderly residing in their homes in Slovenia and their determinants: the residing municipality of the care recipient, geographical distance between the informal carer and the care recipient, to the care recipients' and the care givers' individual characteristics. With the increasing private out-of-pocket financial contribution, which is determined by municipality, the scope and intensity of informal care shows a significant increase as shown by regression analysis. Inter-municipal cooperation and the introduction of gradual private financial contribution are proposed as tools for improving accessibility of social home care in Slovenia.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 35060829In the paper authors analyse peoples’ attitudes toward the existing welfare policies as well as their preferences for the future development of the Slovenian welfare state and whether the implemented policies differ from people’s attitudes taking into account the potential trade-offs between the social protection paradigm on one side and the social investment paradigm on the other. The analysis utilised data gathered with the method of deliberative forums that were carried out in 2015. The analysis shows that there is a discrepancy between ordinary citizens’ expectations for the future development of the Slovenian welfare state and the actual direction of the reforms, which could become one of the most salient issues for the legitimacy of the future Slovenian welfare state. The changes and future of the Slovenian welfare state : a view from deliberative forums. V: New horizons of European social policy : risks, opportunities and challenges. Lisbon: Mundiconvenius, 2017. http://espanetlisbon2017. eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The-Changes-and-Future-of-the-Slovenian-Welfare-State-a-View-from-Deliberative-Forums.pdf
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 35164253Provision of care to dependent elderly parents or parents-in-law is an important part of intergenerational exchange within families, especially in countries where the long-term care system is based predominantly on family care. However, in mixed care networks, comprising family carer(s) and formal carer(s), care tasks are shared between family members and formal carers. We use the first Slovenian national survey of social home care users and their family members, collected in 2013 to observe characteristics and determinants of intergenerational financial transfers in families that use mixed care, within dyads comprising a care receiver and a family care giver. The findings show that there is a high proportion of financial exchange among the observed dyads. Furthermore, among the determinants, the income of the elderly person and amount of care received are important for financial flows upward (to the elderly parent) and downward (from the elderly parent). The two-way flows differ.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 35441757An increasing number of scholars have been recently exploring the role of factors that foster the adoption of different types of assistive technologies among older adults. Our study contributes to this field with a mixed-methods intervention study that combines a baseline and follow-up telephone survey with semi-structured interviews to evaluate the user experience and potentially identifies additional acceptance factors of e-care systems and relations among them. Different assistive technologies were tested and evaluated by three groups of participants: (1) older adults testing mobile and wearable devices and (2) informal carers who remotely monitored events recorded by e-care systems installed in the homes of (3) care receivers. The findings indicate heterogeneous needs and expectations these three groups have towards the use of e-care systems. Moreover, the results also unveil the fear of not getting help quickly in case of an emergency, and perception of safety and peace of mind as important predictors of the use of e-care systems among informal carers and care receivers. Indirectly, the results also reveal the importance of intervention and mixed methods design studies as a means of a more comprehensive understanding of acceptance factors of assistive technologies.
F.17 Transfer of existing technologies, know-how, methods and procedures into practice
COBISS.SI-ID: 34992733The research report to the commercial funder summarizes the research procedures and the results of the intervention pilot study, which, using a mixed methods approach (a combination of a telephone survey and semi-structured interviews), evaluated the use of various e-care systems and assistive technology devices. Based on analysis of collected data, users' experiences with individual systems and devices, their assessment and intentions of further use were presented. Additionally recommendations for possible improvement of user experience were formulated. The report enables the company to make informed decisions about the choice of technologies, the design and marketing of e-care services for the elderly in the Slovenian market.
F.17 Transfer of existing technologies, know-how, methods and procedures into practice
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