2.1.4. Home care (help-at-home)

Bibliographic Records

Social versus Fiscal – The future of ‘Help at Home’ services in the Greek social care regime

Social care policies in Greece are promoted mainly by public bodies and community agencies, strongly influenced by the subsidiarity principle (complementary role of the state related to the social functions of family and kinship networks), typical of the Mediterranean social

Social Care – Help at Home

On this specific old website of the NPO “50plus Greece”, information was provided on the Help at Home service: aims, services provided, selection criteria, staffing, registration for older people, catalogue of Help at Home services.

Family carers’ experiences using support services in Europe: empirical evidence from the EUROFAMCARE study.

This article explores the experiences of family carers of older people in using support services in six European countries: Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK.Following a common protocol, data were collected from national samples of approximately 1,000 family

Stakeholders in support systems for self-care for chronic illness: the gap between expectations and reality regarding their identity, roles and relationships

Τhis paper within the framework of a FP7 collaborative research project reports the views of key informants from six countries regarding who the main stakeholders are at different levels in the support system for self-care for patients with chronic illness

The quality of life of older people who live in institutions and those who remain at home.

This study describes theoretically a number of issues affecting the third age and particularly the problems facing this population group, supported by considerable empirical data on the better quality of life for those who stay at home versus those who

Factors affecting the health status of elderly people receiving home care

OBJECTIVE: To assess the interaction between comorbidities and self-reported health status as the basis for preventive intervention in care of the elderly. METHOD: A cross-sectional study was conducted with elderly people (≥65 years) registered in the home health care program