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Vanhuskuvat ja vanhustenhuollon muotoutuminen 1850-luvulta 1990-luvulle (2004)

Helsingin yliopisto (Finland)
Publication date: 2004
Language: Finnish

Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: 244 pp.

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Public health Aged Social welfare Aging Aged Medicalization 20th century 19th century Finland

The present study set out to analyse images of the elderly in the social welfare and health care system for the elderly in Finland over the past 150 years. The aim was to study how these images emerge and how prevailing images have changed over time. Another aim was to analyse trends in care for the elderly from the perspective of medicalization. In the study, the image of the elderly consisted of three factors: characteristics, assistance needs and solutions to meet those needs. The empirical source materials of the study consisted of committee statements on care for the elderly and policy in the area, acts and decrees, together with the Government proposals and Committee statements and other documentation behind their enactment, and national plans for the organization of social welfare and health care. Other materials included research findings on old age and ageing, social history research on social change, and statistics on services for the elderly. The way images of the elderly emerge and are shaped was interpreted in five stages in the study. The first, second and third stage consisted of drawing up outlines for systems to classify characteristics and assistance needs based on the source materials. The fourth stage interpreted the shaping of images of the elderly with the aid of certain external concepts. In the fifth stage the shaping of image of the elderly was interpreted from the point of view of medicalization. The results showed that the characteristics linked with elderly people had changed a great deal over the period under review. The study also showed that there was more continuity than change in the assistance needs of the elderly. The results demonstrate that there was never a single, prevailing image of the elderly in the care sector, but that in fact, there were usually several images in existence at any one time. The medicalization of old age has spread very rapidly in the past 50 years. The main reasons for this lie in an emphasis on preventive social policy, the WHO's definition of health, and faith in the potential of medical science.

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Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. C 65/02 (2004): 329. UMI pub. no. C816151.

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