FEM 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Long-Term Care, Social Isolation, W. M. Keck Observatory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2104
• Professor: Emilie Dionne

Document Summary

Community care for people with disability: blurring boundaries between formal and informal. Health and supportive care for children and adults with disabling health conditions is increasingly shifting from institutional settings to the community or home setting. Social isolation is not uncommon among people with dis- ability, because disability itself is often a barrier to the social interaction necessary to foster and maintain friend and family ties. Task specificity theory: matching the characteristics of caregiver to caregiving tasks. Litwak devised a classification scheme for services that best match the characteristics of primary versus formal groups" structure. Primary groups are distinguishable from formal helpers (e. g. , employees of organizations) primarily by the nature of their motivation to help and the nature of the skills they bring to the task. Whereas the primary group is motivated by affection for and feelings of obligation to the individual requiring care, formal sources of help are generally motivated by economic incentive.