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dc.contributor.authorÅgotnes, Gudmund
dc.contributor.authorMoholt, Jill-Marit
dc.contributor.authorBlix, Bodil Hansen
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-16T14:36:10Z
dc.date.available2021-11-16T14:36:10Z
dc.date.issued2021-11-09
dc.description.abstractIn the context of current and expected demographic changes, the issues of which services the welfare state should offer and, ultimately, the very function of the welfare state are currently debated in Norway. The political discourse on health and care services for older adults has morphed into an accepted reality in which the system must be altered, prompting policy makers and stakeholders to find new and novel solutions to problems associated with population ageing. In this paper, we discuss one such proposed solution: the transformation of health and care services for the older adult population through the increased involvement of volunteers. We ask how volunteer efforts are articulated and delineated through official accounts and discuss the implications of such an articulation and delineation. We seek answers to these questions through a critical discourse analysis of recent governmental white papers. We investigate, in other words, volunteer efforts as a political instrument. We argue that the official representation of how efforts in health and care services should be re-aligned take the form of a distinct discourse of ‘voluntarism’. Within this ‘voluntarism’, volunteer efforts have been altered from a third sector comprising charity and non-profit organisations that contribute within or as a supplement to the largely public-run welfare system to a limitless and extensive concept that is blurring the boundaries to informal care.en_US
dc.identifier.citationÅgotnes, Moholt, Blix. From volunteer work to informal care by stealth: a ‘new voluntarism’ in social democratic health and welfare services for older adults. Ageing & Society. 2021en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1952735
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0144686X21001598
dc.identifier.issn0144-686X
dc.identifier.issn1469-1779
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/23024
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCambrigde University Pressen_US
dc.relation.journalAgeing & Society
dc.relation.urihttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ageing-and-society/article/from-volunteer-work-to-informal-care-by-stealth-a-new-voluntarism-in-social-democratic-health-and-welfare-services-for-older-adults/0
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800en_US
dc.titleFrom volunteer work to informal care by stealth: a ‘new voluntarism’ in social democratic health and welfare services for older adultsen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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