Eamon O’Shea, Suzanne Cahill, and Maria Pierce
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781447316237
- eISBN:
- 9781447316244
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447316237.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
The impact of dementia is substantial, affecting both the individuals and their caregivers on personal, emotional, financial and social levels. As in most countries, dementia is competing for ever ...
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The impact of dementia is substantial, affecting both the individuals and their caregivers on personal, emotional, financial and social levels. As in most countries, dementia is competing for ever scarcer public resources at a time of increasing need. Against the backdrop of austerity, this chapter examines the current realities of dementia care in Ireland, and the potential re-framing of dementia policy in the country. The chapter draws on the international literature and the experiences of other countries to help understand the complexities and constraints associated with policy-making for people with dementia in Ireland, and elsewhere. The chapter presents a dementia framework recognising the narrowness of the current policy approach and the opportunity that now exists to develop more appropriate counter-policy frames for dementia care, whether austerity is a part of the context or not.Less
The impact of dementia is substantial, affecting both the individuals and their caregivers on personal, emotional, financial and social levels. As in most countries, dementia is competing for ever scarcer public resources at a time of increasing need. Against the backdrop of austerity, this chapter examines the current realities of dementia care in Ireland, and the potential re-framing of dementia policy in the country. The chapter draws on the international literature and the experiences of other countries to help understand the complexities and constraints associated with policy-making for people with dementia in Ireland, and elsewhere. The chapter presents a dementia framework recognising the narrowness of the current policy approach and the opportunity that now exists to develop more appropriate counter-policy frames for dementia care, whether austerity is a part of the context or not.
Keiran Walsh, Gemma M. Carney, and Áine Ní Léime (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781447316237
- eISBN:
- 9781447316244
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447316237.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
Demographic ageing is identified as a global challenge with significant social policy implications across local, national and international contexts. The 2008 economic crisis and related austerity ...
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Demographic ageing is identified as a global challenge with significant social policy implications across local, national and international contexts. The 2008 economic crisis and related austerity policies further compound and complicate this challenge. Social policy pressures characterising ageing societies increasingly need to be understood within the context of the economic recession and the evolving circumstances of austerity. Yet, the extent to which the global economic crisis intensifies problems experienced in later life has been largely neglected as a research and policy topic. This book addresses this deficit by using Ireland as a site for unpacking social policy issues in ageing through austerity. The book interrogates whether or not the economic recession and austerity has in fact altered ageing experiences for older people in Ireland. A selection of internationally recognised policy issues for ageing societies are explored; demography; citizenship; participation and volunteering; work, gender and pensions; age-friendly communities and place; dementia care; and social exclusion. The book presents a critical analysis to contextualise and elaborate on international debates around these issues within the Irish austerity setting, and to identify future directions for research and policy that are relevant beyond Ireland. A central goal of contributors is to demonstrate linkages between the global, national and local levels that shape the experiences of ageing in a time of austerity. The emphasis, however, is as much on the capacity of the local to shape and manipulate global influence and forces, as it is about the power of globalisation over national and community contexts.Less
Demographic ageing is identified as a global challenge with significant social policy implications across local, national and international contexts. The 2008 economic crisis and related austerity policies further compound and complicate this challenge. Social policy pressures characterising ageing societies increasingly need to be understood within the context of the economic recession and the evolving circumstances of austerity. Yet, the extent to which the global economic crisis intensifies problems experienced in later life has been largely neglected as a research and policy topic. This book addresses this deficit by using Ireland as a site for unpacking social policy issues in ageing through austerity. The book interrogates whether or not the economic recession and austerity has in fact altered ageing experiences for older people in Ireland. A selection of internationally recognised policy issues for ageing societies are explored; demography; citizenship; participation and volunteering; work, gender and pensions; age-friendly communities and place; dementia care; and social exclusion. The book presents a critical analysis to contextualise and elaborate on international debates around these issues within the Irish austerity setting, and to identify future directions for research and policy that are relevant beyond Ireland. A central goal of contributors is to demonstrate linkages between the global, national and local levels that shape the experiences of ageing in a time of austerity. The emphasis, however, is as much on the capacity of the local to shape and manipulate global influence and forces, as it is about the power of globalisation over national and community contexts.
