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Between kith and kin and formal services
— everyday help and support in the 'middle layer' | | Author(s) | Simon Anderson, Julie Brownlie, Elisabeth-Jane Milne |
| Corporate Author | Work Foundation Alliance; Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF |
| Publisher | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF, York, May 2015 |
| Pages | 36 pp (JRF programme paper; Ageing society) |
| Source | https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/between-kith-and-kin-and-for... |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Services ; Voluntary agencies ; Self help organisations ; Qualitative Studies ; Glasgow. |
| Annotation | This paper looks at acts and relationships of everyday help between the worlds of kith and kin and formal service provision. It focuses on the role of those groups and organisations which lack any formal remit for support but make an important contribution to an infrastructure of kindness. It explores how such settings can facilitate - and sometimes constrain - small acts of kindness and variation in such dynamics across social and geographic contexts. The paper forms part of the Liveable Lives study, a large-scale qualitative research project examining views and experiences of everyday help and support. It presents examples from the Glasgow research in the three study areas of Maryhill, Hillhead and Bearsden, including a community library, a befriending service, community gardening, a healthy ageing group, and a Ramblers group. The paper was commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) as part of its programme on ageing society, which works to understand how demographic changes will affect the way we live together. (NH/RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-151013217 B |
| Classmark | P6: I: PK: PQ: 3DP: 9WC |
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