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1	Utbud eller behov? : En kvalitativ studie av biståndshandläggare inom äldreomsorgen och deras erfarenheter av arbetet med äldres ofrivilliga ensamhet / Range of interventions or needs? : A qualitative study of needs assesors in elderly care and their experiences of working with the involuntary loneliness of the elderly Petersson, Anton, Wennerström, Annie January 2022 (has links) This paper aims to investigate how needs assessors in the municipality experience their work with elderly people who experience loneliness, and what different types of support measures they can offer. In addition the paper looks into the discretion which the needs assessors use to provide the elderly people with care that is adapted to individual needs. This qualitative study has been carried out conducting semi-structured interviews with seven needs assessors from five different municipalities. The findings indicate that the work with elderly people experiencing loneliness is very much a question of interpretation. Loneliness can manifest itself in different ways and is not always easy to talk about, nor to interpret. The study also shows that individual assessments can be difficult to implement due to strict guidelines and a tight budget. However, the work towards helping-and supporting elder people and acknowledging the issue of loneliness in later life is an important matter for both older people and needs assessors. Social work elderly care involuntary loneliness of the elderly needs assesors individual assessments municipal guidelines street-level bureaucracy room for maneuver Socialt arbete äldreomsorg äldres ofrivilliga ensamhet biståndshandläggare individuella bedömningar behovsanpassade insatser kommunala riktlinjer gräsrotsbyråkrati handlingsutrymme Social Work Socialt arbete

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