<p>Our aim with this essay is to examine if social work in the care of elderly tends to be salutogenetic or patogenetic oriented. A salutogenetic oriented activity means that the social workers focuses on the elderly peoples individual possibilities, and collaborate with the receiver of care in order to offer him or her aid and resources for meaningful living conditions. A patogenetic oriented activity on the other hand means that the social workers focuses on the elderly peoples most primary needs, their illnesses and to introduce adequate treatment. We also examine if social workers in the care of elderly tend to prefer male or female characteristic features in the receivers of care. Finally we wanted to find out if there were any gender distinctions, if the appraisal of aid were more affected by a male or female receiver of care. We also considered that gender might not have any affect on their appraisal at all.</p><p>Our theoretical framework is mainly based on three already existing theories. These gave us a general list of salutogenetic/patogenetic statements and typical male/female characteristic features. Because of time shortage the material includes only one empirical method, which is a questionnaire to the employees in the care of the elderly. The method of analysis is mostly quantitative, but since the questionnaire also contained some opened questions, our study is partly qualitative. A total of 101 persons participated in our questionnaire poll. The results of our study brought about unexpected results. To our surprise, the social workers in the care of elderly tend to prefer male characteristic features in the receivers of care. We also found that what requires of a good apraisal of aid is a salutogenetic perspective, but that the social workers thought it was difficult to apply in practice.</p>

Our aim with this essay is to examine if social work in the care of elderly tends to be salutogenetic or patogenetic oriented. A salutogenetic oriented activity means that the social workers focuses on the elderly peoples individual possibilities, and collaborate with the receiver of care in order to offer him or her aid and resources for meaningful living conditions. A patogenetic oriented activity on the other hand means that the social workers focuses on the elderly peoples most primary needs, their illnesses and to introduce adequate treatment. We also examine if social workers in the care of elderly tend to prefer male or female characteristic features in the receivers of care. Finally we wanted to find out if there were any gender distinctions, if the appraisal of aid were more affected by a male or female receiver of care. We also considered that gender might not have any affect on their appraisal at all. Our theoretical framework is mainly based on three already existing theories. These gave us a general list of salutogenetic/patogenetic statements and typical male/female characteristic features. Because of time shortage the material includes only one empirical method, which is a questionnaire to the employees in the care of the elderly. The method of analysis is mostly quantitative, but since the questionnaire also contained some opened questions, our study is partly qualitative. A total of 101 persons participated in our questionnaire poll. The results of our study brought about unexpected results. To our surprise, the social workers in the care of elderly tend to prefer male characteristic features in the receivers of care. We also found that what requires of a good apraisal of aid is a salutogenetic perspective, but that the social workers thought it was difficult to apply in practice.

För att ett kreditinstitut ska låna ut pengar, måste de först göra en kreditbedömning. Väl där granskas finansiell information, återbetalningsförmåga samt även personen bakom företaget och dess egenskaper. Trots att bankbelåning är det vanligaste sättet att finansiera sin verksamhet för många små företag, visar flera studier att kvinnoledda företag har svårare att få lån jämfört med manliga entreprenörer. Syftet med denna uppsats är att få en ökad förståelse samt redogöra för vilka diskurser som råder bland kreditbedömare vad gäller betydelsen/rollen som personliga egenskaper har hos manliga och kvinnliga entreprenörer. I denna studie har en abduktiv ansats använts, som är en blandning av den deduktiva och induktiva forskningsansatsen. Studiens resultat kommer fram till att diskurserna som hittades är att en del av respondenterna anser att egenskaper är viktiga, medan en annan del anser att egenskaper är viktiga, dock inte avgörande. Vidare visar resultat att respondenterna anser att uppdelningarna mellan manliga och kvinnliga entreprenörer inte existerar och är olämpliga. Slutligen visar studien att en entreprenör är en person oavsett kön, som innehar entreprenöriella egenskaper. / In order for a credit institution to lend money, they must first do a credit assessment. Once there, financial information, ability to repay and also the person behind the company and its owners characteristics are reviewed. Despite the fact that bank loans are the most common way to finance their business for many small businesses, several studies show that women-led businesses have more difficulty getting loans compared to male entrepreneurs. The purpose of this essay is to investigate what discourses there are among the bank assessors when it comes to the meaning/role of the characteristics of male and female entrepreneurs on credit assessment. In this study, an abductive approach has been used, which is a mixture of the deductive and inductive research approach. The results of the study conclude that the discourses that were found are that one part of the respondents means that characteristics are important, while the other thinks it's important but not decisive. Further the results show that the respondents think that the dividing of male and female entrepreneurs does not exist and is inappropriate. Lastly the study shows that an entrepreneur is a person regardless of the person being a male or female, which have characteristics that are viewed as entrepreneurial.