The public eldercare is responsible to provide with both resources and safety for the elderlypopulation now and in the future with the challenge of an aging population. Each of the smallmunicipalities in Åland provides with care for the elderly. This is regulated by the Finnishsocial welfare act with the purpose for the elderly to get the social care they are in need of.The goal of this study is to find out the biggest challenges with this implementation accordingto the leaders of the eldercare. The interviews and the analysis in this study are based on theclassic implementation theory by Lundquist (1992) in which the implementation is analyzedby three important elements: the knowledge, the resources and the willingness to implement.The results of this study indicate that there is some challenges in the implementation of thesocial welfare act. Although there is some lack of resources this is the element in which themost development is taking place, and perhaps the easiest element for the eldercare leaders todiscuss. There is a strong willingness among the leaders to implement the social welfare act.Finally the knowledge has many sides since the leaders are sometimes self taught but alsoaffected by the vagueness of the law. The eldercare is in for a change, in which new laws areabout to be implemented in to the eldercare system and a whole new implementation processwill begin during the next year.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-175331 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Roos, Ida |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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