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Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
This paper examines the caregiving/receiving practice among Finnish seniors who live at home in the Archipelago region and Lapland. By questioning when does the choice to live alone in frail conditions in remote areas become unusual, the relationship between the rural carescapes and the people’s attachment to their homes will be analysed.
Paper long abstract:
In Finland, home care is regarded as a progressive social service
compared to the old-fashioned institutional care. According to the
Ministry of Health and Welfare, it is more humane and cost-effective
approach because it promotes autonomy of senior citizens. It is customer
-oriented, thus suits the neoliberal ideology of the policy. However,
this scheme is not applicable to all the senior citizens. The ideal home
care customer would be those who live in apartment rooms in urban
location with relatively good health. Municipalities doesn’t actively
recommend senior citizens to stay at home if their house is situated in
extremely remote location or they are dangerously fragile. Delivering
home care service to those customers is costly.
Still, after the Finnish welfare state taking neoliberal turn, number of
seniors who chose to stay home with difficulty is more prominent than
before. Then, when does the choice to live alone in frail conditions in
remote areas become counter-progressive to the eyes of public service?
What kind of attachment to the place does senior citizens bring out to
assert their decision to stay? This paper examines the amalgam of
informal/formal care practice among Finnish seniors in rural regions.
The ethnographic data is based on research in Finnish Archipelago and
Lapland where geographical disadvantage and the minority languages limit
the access to public/private care service. By comparing the local
carescapes (Milligan and Wiles 2010) which are consists of kinship ties,
neighbourhood, geographical prerequisite, politico-economic condition
and morality, people’s attachment to their homes will be analysed.
(Re)attachment to place as a form of resistance II
Session 1 Tuesday 22 June, 2021, -