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In defence of care
— the importance of care as a positive concept | | Author(s) | Rolf Ronning |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing, vol 3, no 4, December 2002 |
| Pages | pp 34-43 |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Community care ; Informal care ; Management [care] ; Norway. |
| Annotation | This article concerns the implications of the different uses of the concept of care in the research and debate on home care. It can be read as a comment on the British debate, seen with Norwegian eyes, and from a starting point where care is a positively loaded concept. In order to identify some core elements, the article begins with a definition of care, before examining two main lines of attack in the British debate. A distinction between care as an ideal and as practice is introduced. The article tries to demonstrate how the outcome of caring can be seen as a result both of political attitudes and of different forms of organisation. It concludes by discussing why we need to save "care" as a positive concept in the evaluation of formal systems providing care as a social service. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030213008 A |
| Classmark | N: PA: P6: QA: 76N |
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