What has neighbourhood cohesion to do with informal care

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What has neighbourhood cohesion to do with
informal care?
18 juni 2008 Lilian Linders Fontys University of
Applied Sciences
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Structure

• What is informal care?
• This research, why, how and where?
• Results

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Informal care

• Family care
• Neighbourhood support
• Voluntary care

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Cohesion and neighbourhood

• Aging of the population
• Deinstitutionalisation
• Social Support Act Netherlands
• Community Care Act UK

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Social networks changed

• Increased mobility
• Weakened local social relations
• More paid employment (for women)
• Individualization
• Smaller households

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Research Location

• Small neighbourhood in medium sized city
• Poor neighbourhood
• Cheap rented houses
• 2600 inhabitants

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Research design

• Survey
• Semi-structured interviews

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Results

• People dont help because its a norm within the
  neighbourhood community
• In some small parts of the neighbourhood people
  do share a sense of community

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Results

• People help for individual reasons
• Their negative image of their own neighbourhood
  doesnt stop helping others

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Results

• Neighbourhood networks are individualized
• People prefer personal distance with most of
  their neighbours, but not always with the ones
  they help

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Conclusions

• Neighbours do help each other
• This neighbourly help has got nothing to do with
  neighbourhood community
• Interventions to support informal care in
  neighbourhoods should support personal networks
  rather then community networks