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Professional Care Services: Tool for Diversity and Social Integration
M. Denis STOKKINK,
Président “Pour la Solidarité”
Madrid, 12th November 2010
Professional care services as tool for social cohesion
• Definition of care : provision of social and health services to help daily living of older or vulnerable people.
• Informal vs. formal care
• Using formal and decent work ensures :
1. Care receivers’ wellbeing
2. Family members’ wellbeing
3. Quality services
Informal Caregiver Burnout
• Family members and other informal caregivers who have closecontact with a disabled or a elderly person are at high risk ofburnout.
• Some causes: sleep interruptions, inability to leave the carereceiver alone, physical burden, emotional stress…
Using formal help allows better work-life balance to preventindividual caregivers from “burning out”.
Formal Care & Elderly
• More and more elderly people do not want to live innursing homes but they need long-term careservices.
It requires an increased access to a skilled andprofessional workforce in order to support informalcare givers and prevent or postpone many nursinghome placements.
Home care & Independent living
• Home care will enable a person to retain his/herindependence and have help with his/her domestictasks or any personal care needs he/she has.
Home care services are a way to reduce health carecosts (Home care is a cost-effective alternative tohospitals and nursing homes)
Children care
• Childcare provision still presents one of themain barriers to women wishing :
return to work
make a career
Improved childcare policies are needed toachieve better work/life balance.
Formal care against undeclared work
• The demand for personal care service has to besupported (i.e. subsidized) by the public sector. Ex.:chèque emploi service universel (France), titre-service(Belgium), Personal Autonomy and Dependent Care Law(Spain).
• Need for a legislation to address the issue of undeclaredwork: recognizing and enforcing the rights of womenimmigrant care workers (ex.: badanti in Italy)
