Social imaginaries and the application of feminist care perspectives to nursing home reform
In: International journal of care and caring, Band 7, Heft 4, S. 750-755
ISSN: 2397-883X
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In: International journal of care and caring, Band 7, Heft 4, S. 750-755
ISSN: 2397-883X
In: Studies in political economy: SPE, Band 95, Heft 1, S. 7-28
ISSN: 1918-7033
In: Studies in political economy: SPE ; a socialist review, Heft 95, S. 7
ISSN: 0707-8552
In: Journal of aging studies, Band 59, S. 100965
ISSN: 1879-193X
In: Journal of aging studies, Band 33, S. 28-36
ISSN: 1879-193X
In: The international journal of sociology and social policy, Band 34, Heft 1/2, S. 2-18
ISSN: 1758-6720
Purpose
– This study aims to explore the causes and consequences of media scandals involving nursing homes for older persons in Canada, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the USA.
Design/methodology/approach
– This study uses a descriptive case-study methodology which provides an in-depth, focused, qualitative analysis of one selected nursing home scandal in each jurisdiction. Scandals were selected on the basis of being substantive enough to potentially affect policy. An international comparative perspective was adopted to consider whether and how different social, political and economic contexts might shape scandals and their consequences.
Findings
– This study found that for-profit residential care provision as well as international trends in the ownership and financing of nursing homes were factors in the emergence of all media scandals, as was investigative reporting and a lack of consensus around the role of the state in the delivery of residential care. All scandals resulted in government action but such action generally avoided addressing underlying structural conditions.
Research limitations/implications
– This study examines only the short-term effects of five media scandals.
Originality/value
– While there has been longstanding recognition of the importance of scandals to the development of residential care policy, there have been few studies that have systematically examined the causes and consequences of such scandals. This paper contributes to a research agenda that more fully considers the media's role in the development of residential care policy, attending to both its promises and shortcomings.