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What has neighbourhood cohesion to do with informal care?

What has neighbourhood cohesion to do with informal care?. 18 juni 2008 Lilian Linders Fontys University of Applied Sciences. Structure. What is informal care? This research, why, how and where? Results. Informal care. Family care Neighbourhood support Voluntary care.

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What has neighbourhood cohesion to do with informal care?

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  1. What has neighbourhood cohesion to do with informal care? 18 juni 2008 Lilian Linders Fontys University of Applied Sciences

  2. Structure • What is informal care? • This research, why, how and where? • Results

  3. Informal care • Family care • Neighbourhood support • Voluntary care

  4. Cohesion and neighbourhood • Aging of the population • Deinstitutionalisation • Social Support Act: Netherlands • Community Care Act: UK

  5. Social networks changed • Increased mobility • Weakened local social relations • More paid employment (for women) • Individualization • Smaller households

  6. Research Location • Small neighbourhood in medium sized city • Poor neighbourhood • Cheap rented houses • 2600 inhabitants

  7. Research design • Survey • Semi-structured interviews

  8. Results • People don’t help because it’s a norm within the neighbourhood community • In some small parts of the neighbourhood people do share a sense of community

  9. Results • People help for individual reasons • Their negative image of their own neighbourhood doesn’t stop helping others

  10. Results • Neighbourhood networks are individualized • People prefer personal distance with most of their neighbours, but not always with the ones they help

  11. Conclusions • Neighbours do help each other • This neighbourly help has got nothing to do with neighbourhood community • Interventions to support informal care in neighbourhoods should support personal networks rather then community networks

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