Regarding the dramatic shift towards home ownership in transition countries, the changing macro policy frameworks have been widely discussed, whereas the meaning of home ownership remains an under-researched issue. This paper examines the motives for home ownership and aims to identify any change in them parallel to the contextual transformations. An exploratory qualitative analysis of 25 interviews indicates a change in argumentation from a mostly detailed circumstantial consideration among pre-transitional entrants to mainly modest argumentation among post-transitional entrants, which took home ownership as a "normal tenure" and "the market" as a self-referential, self-justifying interpretative framework, as is typical of the neoliberal transitional discourse. Our specific data-driven categorization of the motives demonstrates the impact of contextual change on the meanings of tenures and the relative rise in attractiveness of home ownership. In contrast, public renting shared the destiny of many other public welfare institutions that had previously served as a hedge against individual risks, but were retrenched and restructured during transition. Public renting proved to be specifically exposed and highly vulnerable to political pressures.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34906461
The purpose of the chapter is to examine the changes in the aging policies in Slovenia within the influences of the EY2012 together with the changes in social policies, i.e., austerity measures, which were the results of economic crisis. We analysed the dominant trends in the development of the care for older people (including both institutional care and home care services), starting from 1992, when Slovenia gained independence, until the recent economic crisis. We concluded that the social policy development was marked by results of austerity measures, which significantly worsen the quality of life of older people and their families.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35346269
Slovenia faced a pronounced recession, which was further exacerbated by political instability with the restructuring of both left- and right-wing political coalitions. These pressures, coupled with an emphasis on austerity, have led to structural welfare system reforms resulting in a step-change in the reform process. The present paper considers future directions of the Slovenian welfare system, using data from attitude surveys, analyses of policy documents and other sources to examine the country’s policies and future directions.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35221597
Housing is a basic human good and right. It plays a versatile role, allowing people to fulfil a number of needs, and it is not limited only to one%s immediate living space, but also includes an individual%s wider living environment. People%s relationship toward housing and their living environment changes over the course of their lives. Especially in old age, housing becomes more important. Research shows that the elderly want to remain in their home environments as long as possible because they are closely attached to them. In order to determine whether these findings also apply to Slovenia, this article analyses how attached the elderly in Slovenia are to their homes and wider living environment and how satisfied they are with living there. The elderly%s views were obtained with a survey, and a statistical analysis was carried out using SPSS software, based on the calculation of various statistical correlation tests. The analysis confirmed the assumption that the Slovenian elderly are also very attached to their homes or home environments and are satisfied with living there. In addition, the analysis showed some differences among the elderly in this regard depending on their age, where they live and how long they have been living in their current homes.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35387741
We explore the role of housing in old-age welfare in a comparative way, by contrasting the situation in post-socialist countries with other European countries and country groups. In post-socialist countries, the entire welfare system was affected by the social cost of the transition, undermining the ability of societies to deal with long-term social challenges such as demographic ageing.. The chapeter examines a number of system-level indicators of the level of old-agecare services, the financing of these services by public versus private funding,and general population attitudes regarding care aswellas the institutional context. . For the analysis, data from various sources, including the fourth wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE, 2011), are combined.. The results show a significant gap in the availability of old-age services in post-socialist countries compared to many other countries, but not to the ‘familialistic’ Southern European group. The significance of the family for old-age care – in terms of both providing care and helping to pay for it – was found to be roughly similar between these two groups, and quite different from other groups of countries. In comparison to the others, these two country groups have experienced a delay in providing new forms of care services and in integrating the cost of them into the formal system.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34977373