Journal articles: 'Long term social assistance'

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Bergmark, A. "Stuck with Welfare? Long-term Social Assistance Recipiency in Sweden." European Sociological Review 20, no. 5 (December 1, 2004): 425–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/esr/jch036.

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Boeri, Tito, and Andreas W�rg�tter. "Special Issue on ?Long term unemployment and social assistance?: Introduction." Empirical Economics 23, no. 1-2 (March 1998): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01205677.

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Boeri, Tito, and Andreas Wörgötter. "Special Issue on `Long term unemployment and social assistance': Introduction." Empirical Economics 23, no. 1-2 (July 29, 1998): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s001810050010.

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G�ra, Marek, and Christoph M. Schmidt. "Long-term unemployment, unemployment benefits and social assistance: The Polish experience." Empirical Economics 23, no. 1-2 (March 1998): 55–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01205680.

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Earle, John S., and Catalin Pauna. "Long-term unemployment, social assistance and labor market policies in Romania." Empirical Economics 23, no. 1-2 (March 1998): 203–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01205685.

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Góra, Marek, and Christoph M. Schmidt. "Long-term unemployment, unemployment benefits and social assistance: The Polish experience." Empirical Economics 23, no. 1-2 (July 29, 1998): 55–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s001810050013.

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Earle, John S., and Catalin Pauna. "Long-term unemployment, social assistance and labor market policies in Romania." Empirical Economics 23, no. 1-2 (July 29, 1998): 203–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s001810050018.

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Malmberg-Heimonen, Ira. "The social capital and mental health of long-term social assistance recipients in Norway." European Journal of Social Work 13, no. 1 (March 2010): 91–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691450903135683.

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Arendt, Jacob Nielsen, and Christophe Kolodziejczyk. "The Effects of an Employment Bonus for Long-Term Social Assistance Recipients." Journal of Labor Research 40, no. 4 (June 5, 2019): 412–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12122-019-09290-3.

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Johansen, S. "Psycho-Social Processes and Outcomes of Family Group Conferences for Long-Term Social Assistance Recipients." British Journal of Social Work 44, no. 1 (July 9, 2012): 145–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcs100.

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Bologna, Silvio. "Internal coordination of social security in Italy." European Journal of Social Security 21, no. 2 (May 31, 2019): 141–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1388262719847808.

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This contribution deals with the internal coordination of health care, long-term social care and social assistance schemes – covered by EU regulation no. 883/2004 – in Italy after the constitutional reform enacted in 2001, which significantly decentralised legislative and administrative machinery by strengthening the prerogatives of the Regions, especially in terms of organisation and funding of the services. This article seeks to demonstrate that, although the decentralisation of health care and long-term social care has been accompanied by mechanisms of internal coordination among the Regions (particularly in the field of inter-regional mobility), regional social assistance schemes providing money transfers lack any form of coordination.

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Stranz, Hugo, and Stefan Wiklund. "Risk factors of long-term social assistance recipiency among lone mothers. The case of Sweden." European Journal of Social Work 15, no. 4 (September 2012): 514–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2012.702312.

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Von Bergen, Clarence W., Martin S. Bressler, and Tim Boatmun. "Helping behaviors can negatively impact long-term well-being." Society and Business Review 13, no. 1 (February 12, 2018): 112–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sbr-09-2017-0070.

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Purpose Recently, organizational scholars and social scientists began emphasizing the importance of compassion and altruism and called for increased demonstrations of assistance, giving, empathy and other prosocial conduct toward those in need. Generally, we assume that help is beneficial to those who receive it, and current research on these positive behaviors primarily focuses on the advantages to those who provide it. Despite recent calls for increased levels of aiding the needy and underprivileged, helping may have downsides and adaptive costs to those who receive support that are frequently overlooked. The purpose of the study is to bring to light the potential harm in helping those who lack commitment to improvement, having “skin in the game”. Design/methodology/approach In addition to a literature review, the authors present a model to explain how support in response to human pain and suffering can sometimes result in negative effects on aid recipients. The model specifies two mechanisms, including participation of affected beneficiaries of assistance in the actual aid process and duration of help as factors that may expose vulnerable populations to more risk. Findings The literature strongly suggests that in some instances, helping can be detrimental, to the point where helping can even result in dependency. The authors do not suggest casting a blind eye to those in need, but rather to provide assistance that leads to self-sufficiency. Research limitations/implications Additional research – especially over the long-term – can provide researchers with more detailed results of this approach. Practical implications The findings of this paper can serve as a model approach to provide help that does not create dependency. Social implications Using this approach could provide the ideal method to address long-term social issues that would break the cycle of dependency. Originality/value The authors believe that this approach to helping based upon the two-stage model could become the primary effective method for providing assistance to those in need without creating dependency in the long run.

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Tsupko, I. V., A. S. Milto, N. V. Sharashkina, and O. N. Tkacheva. "Effective social help for elderly people: importance of long-term medical assistance at home." Russian Journal of Geriatric Medicine, no. 1 (February 14, 2020): 86–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.37586/2686-8636-1-2020-86-92.

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Due to the steady aging of the population the social situation to need for reforms has been identified, including a starting a state system of long-term medical care and monitoring at home for patients 65 years and over in Russia last years. The article includes the role, social significance and status for implementation of home medical patronage according the main tasks and priorities towards a decade of healthy ageing of WHO.The provision of home-based primary care in the framework of social protection for elderlies provides to use a typing system for organize targeted assistance for the seniors and persons with disabilities in Russia. By analogy, typing of patients is envisaged and is being developed for conducting medical home nursing.The typing model for long-term medical support of old patients has their own characteristics, from the risk factors and the “philosophical approach” through the end of the multidisciplinary medical team formation and the need for vaccination.

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Heggebø, Kristian, Espen Dahl, and Kjetil A. van der Wel. "Disentangling the dynamics of social assistance: A linked survey—Register data cohort study of long-term social assistance recipients in Norway." PLOS ONE 15, no. 3 (March 27, 2020): e0230891. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230891.

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Bailey, Steffani R., Victor J. Stevens, Stephen P. Fortmann, Stephen E. Kurtz, Mary Ann McBurnie, Elisa Priest, Jon Puro, et al. "Long-Term Outcomes From Repeated Smoking Cessation Assistance in Routine Primary Care." American Journal of Health Promotion 32, no. 7 (March 13, 2018): 1582–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0890117118761886.

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Purpose: To test the association between repeated clinical smoking cessation support and long-term cessation. Design: Retrospective, observational cohort study using structured and free-text data from electronic health records. Setting: Six diverse health systems in the United States. Participants: Patients aged ≥18 years who were smokers in 2007 and had ≥1 primary care visit in each of the following 4 years (N = 33 691). Measures: Primary exposure was a composite categorical variable (comprised of documentation of smoking cessation medication, counseling, or referral) classifying the proportions of visits for which patients received any cessation assistance (<25% (reference), 25%-49%, 50%-74%, and ≥75% of visits). The dependent variable was long-term quit (LTQ; yes/no), defined as no indication of being a current smoker for ≥365 days following a visit where nonsmoker or former smoker was indicated. Analysis: Mixed effects logistic regression analysis adjusted for age, sex, race, and comorbidities, with robust standard error estimation to account for within site correlation. Results: Overall, 20% of the cohort achieved LTQ status. Patients with ≥75% of visits with any assistance had almost 3 times the odds of achieving LTQ status compared to those with <25% visits with assistance (odds ratio = 2.84; 95% confidence interval: 1.50-5.37). Results were similar for specific assistance types. Conclusions: These findings provide support for the importance of repeated assistance at primary care visits to increase long-term smoking cessation.

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Kotýnková, Magdalena. "Long-Term Unemployment in the Czech Republic: Motivation, Obstacles and the Social Assistance System." Prague Economic Papers 15, no. 2 (January 1, 2006): 99–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.18267/j.pep.279.

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Suárez Corujo, Borja. "Internal coordination of social security in Spain." European Journal of Social Security 21, no. 2 (May 31, 2019): 119–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1388262719848983.

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This paper introduces the topic of the internal coordination of regional and local social security schemes in Spain. In the field of social security, the constitutional framework imposes different solutions in terms of the division of competences between State and Autonomous Communities, depending on the branch of (public) social protection. In the provision of long-term social care, for instance, both the State and the Autonomous Communities participate. Healthcare services are mainly provided by the Autonomous Communities without prejudice to certain aspects of the role played by the State. Social assistance through cash benefits or social services are exclusively provided by the Autonomous Communities, with the deep participation of local entities, especially in the case of social services. The paper outlines the extent of devolution and decentralisation, and the adjudication of competence and financial arrangements. The final section addresses some specific questions in healthcare, long-term social care and social assistance.

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Hori, Katsuhiro. "Social Insurance System and Social Assistance System in Long-term Care and Medical Care for the Elderly." Iryo To Shakai 6, no. 4 (1997): 41–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4091/iken1991.6.4_41.

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Bergmark, Åke, Olof Bäckman, and Renate Minas. "Organizing local social service measures to counteract long-term social assistance receipt. What works? Experiences from Sweden." European Journal of Social Work 20, no. 4 (July 13, 2016): 548–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2016.1206851.

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Secret, Mary, and Claudia Peck-Heath. "Maternal Labor Force Participation and Child Well-Being in Public Assistance Families." Journal of Family Issues 25, no. 4 (May 2004): 520–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x03257761.

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This study investigated the relationship between maternal labor force participation and the general health and school performance of school-age children in public assistance families. Data were obtained from face-to-face interviews with 97 mothers drawn froma random sample of public assistance recipients in one community. Using a measure of maternal labor force participation over the course of several years, logistic regression analysis revealed positive, but complex, relationships. Children whose mothers had recent, current, or long-term employment were in better health than children whose mothers had been unemployed for more than 2 years. Children’s school performancewas positively associated with either long-term unemployment or long-term employment, suggesting that the stability of maternal labor force participation, rather than work status per se, was an important factor. The study maintains a needed focus on child outcomes and provides an important conceptualization of maternal labor force participation for use in future welfare reform studies.

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BINTI JUSIN, DAPHNE TALA, and DOLLY BIN PAUL CARLO. "Fire Disaster and Its Implications on Survivors and Social Work Practice: The Case of Rumah Lepang Sayat, Engkilili." Trends in Undergraduate Research 3, no. 2 (December 29, 2020): h39–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.33736/tur.2772.2020.

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This paper focuses on the implications of a longhouse fire on its survivors. It also presents the assistance that survivors received during post-disaster and the implications on the social work practice. It draws on qualitative research based on in-depth interviews with survivors selected through purposive sampling. The data of the study were analysed based thematic analysis. The findings revealed that the survivors faced both short-term and long-term implications after the fire disaster. The assistance received was mainly focused on responding to the short-term implications and was less focused on long-term implications. In the scheme of things, these implications bear on the social work practices as well as on the conditions of the fire disaster survivors.

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Seong, Kijin, Clare Losey, and Shannon Van Zandt. "To Rebuild or Relocate? Long-Term Mobility Decisions of Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Recipients." Sustainability 13, no. 16 (August 5, 2021): 8754. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13168754.

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Limited funds and the demand for disaster assistance call for a broader understanding of how homeowners decide to either rebuild or relocate from their disaster-affected homes. This study examines the long-term mobility decisions of homeowners in Lumberton, North Carolina, USA, who received federal assistance from the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) for property acquisition, elevation, or reconstruction following Hurricane Matthew in 2016. The authors situate homeowners’ decisions to rebuild or relocate in the context of property attributes and neighborhood characteristics. Logit and probit regressions reveal that homeowners with lower-value properties are less likely to relocate, and those subjected to higher flood and inundation risks are more likely to relocate. Additionally, homeowners in neighborhoods of higher social vulnerability—those with a higher proportion of minorities and mortgaged properties—are more likely to rebuild their disaster-affected homes. The authors discuss homeowners’ mobility decisions in the context of the social vulnerability of neighborhoods. Our results contribute to an ongoing policy discussion that seeks to articulate the housing and neighborhood attributes that affect the long-term mobility decisions of recipients of HMGP assistance. The authors suggest that local governments prioritize the mitigation of properties of homeowners of higher physical and social vulnerability to reduce socioeconomic disparities in hazard mitigation and build equitable community resilience.

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Chupina, Victoria, Natalia Tikhonova, and Natalia Popenko. "Long-term mental activation activities in the practice of social and psychological ssistance gerontological patient." Living psychology, no. 7-3 (October 1, 2020): 72–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.51233/2413-6522_lp-2020-7-3-72-79.

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The problem of psychological assistance to the elderly continues to be relevant due to the peculiarities of the personal sphere and mental processes in patients of this age group. When providing medical and social assistance to an elderly patient, psychological support is required, which allows for more effective rehabilitation measures. The purpose of this work is to present modern approaches to psychological care that contribute to the long-term activation of mental activity of elderly patients. The results of the empirical study revealed violations of the dynamic and regulatory nature of all components of mental activity, emotional and volitional disorders in most patients. Therefore, normalization of indicators of mental processes in participants is a necessary condition for positive dynamics of changes in mental processes. Psychological assistance activities in a gerontology center allow you to use a variety of methods and tools that can help activate the mental activity of older people. As a rule, this effect is carried out only in the conditions of the gerontology center and is not long-term. Consequently, the activation of mental activity of elderly patients, achieved by specialists of the institution, may begin to decrease when the patient is discharged. In this regard, the institution introduces innovative forms of psychological and pedagogical influence, which allow the patient to be involved in prolonged projects, in which he can participate after discharge from the institution. The novelty of the work consists in the introduction of a long-term psychological and pedagogical project "Ecoletie", the purpose of which is to implement measures aimed at activating the mental activity of patients by increasing the level of their environmental culture and introducing environmental practices in the further daily activities of the elderly.

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Cremer, Helmuth, Firouz Gahvari, and Pierre Pestieau. "Endogenous Altruism, Redistribution, and Long-Term Care." B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 14, no. 2 (July 25, 2013): 499–524. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2012-0065.

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Abstract This paper studies public provision of long-term care insurance in a world in which family assistance is (i) uncertain and (ii) endogenous, depending on the time parents spend raising their children. Public benefits will be paid in case of disability but cannot be combined with self-insurance or family aid. The benefits are provided equally to all recipients and financed by a proportional payroll tax. The paper shows that tax distortions imply that full insurance is undesirable. It characterizes the optimal tax and identifies the elements that determine its size. Of crucial importance are the extent of under-insurance, the effect of the tax on the probability of altruism, the distortionary effect of the tax, and, with wage heterogeneity, the covariance between the social marginal utility of lifetime income and (i) earnings (positive effect) and (ii) the probability of altruism default (negative effect).

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Fabius, Chanee, and Philippa Clarke. "Social and Physical Contexts of Long-Term Services and Supports." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 711. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2501.

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Abstract In the coming years, inevitably growing numbers of older populations will yield more older Americans with extensive medical and long-term care needs. This will lead to an increasing need for long-term services and supports (LTSS) to assist older adults with routine daily activities (e.g., bathing, dressing, medication management). There is a growing interest in understanding how social and physical environments contribute to health outcomes and the provision of services and resources for older persons with disabilities requiring assistance from LTSS. Decisions about care and subsequent experiences are likely a result of factors that extend beyond personal preference or individual factors, such as neighborhood quality, housing context, and living situations (i.e., homebound status) among community-dwelling older adults. Given population aging and the shift of LTSS from nursing homes toward community settings, there is a pressing need for more information about contextual factors that might help better develop supports for vulnerable older adults. This symposium will feature four presentations that provide novel insight regarding social and physical contextual factors contributing to LTSS. Presentations leverage data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), a nationally representative survey of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older, and will describe: 1) associations between individual and home environment risk-factors, neighborhood-level social deprivation, and falls; 2) the relationship between neighborhood-level social deprivation and caregiving intensity (number of hours of caregiving per week) among community-dwelling older adults; 3) associations between living in single-family vs. multi-unit housing and social networks; and 4) community tenure among homebound older adults.

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Boydell, Katherine M., and John N. Trainor. "Improving the Income Support of the Chronically Mentally Ill: A Model Program to Address the Needs of the Ex-Psychiatric Patient." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 33, no. 1 (February 1988): 3–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/070674378803300102.

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Interest in developing support services for the long-term mentally ill has increased in recent years. One of the most important aspects of support essential to the basic community survival of the chronic patient is income maintenance. Unfortunately, support in this area has been declining for this population. The purpose of this paper is to briefly outline the decline in the overall well-being of patients who rely on social assistance, describe a model income maintenance program established in a provincial psychiatric hospital, and, to evaluate the program's success in alleviating the financial problems of the long-term mentally ill. The income maintenance program described has proven to be a successful method of improving the economic situation of the long-term mentally ill. In its first 30 months of operation, the income status of over 3,000 patients has been systematically reviewed and 77% of those eligible have been converted to higher social assistance rates. The conversion has resulted in a 30 to 40% increase in income for the patients involved. The program has also contributed to improved relations with hospital staff and social assistance offices.

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Wahl, Astrid, Astrid Bergland, and Borghild Løyland. "Is social capital associated with coping, self-esteem, health and quality of life in long-term social assistance recipients?" Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences 24, no. 4 (November 9, 2010): 808–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6712.2010.00779.x.

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Foley, Kelly, and Saul Schwartz. "Earnings Supplements and Job Quality among Former Welfare Recipients." Articles 58, no. 2 (December 1, 2003): 258–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/007304ar.

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Summary The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) offered a generous but time-limited earnings supplement to a randomly assigned group of lone parents—who were also long-term social assistance recipients—if they found full-time work and left social assistance. Employment data was collected for this group over a three-year period following the offer, and for a randomly-assigned control group. This article analyzes the characteristics of the first job that SSP participants found after they left social assistance. The occupations and industries of the first job held are analyzed as is SSP’s impact on hourly wages, weekly hours and job stability. The article finds that SSP increased employment in jobs that were no worse (and no better) than the jobs that participants might have taken in the absence of the program.

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Johansen, Sissel. "Therapeutic features of the family group conference model when applied for long-term social assistance recipients." Journal of Family Social Work 23, no. 3 (January 21, 2020): 277–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2019.1709245.

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Leather, Philip, and Sheila Mackintosh. "The Long Term Impact of Staying Put." Ageing and Society 13, no. 2 (June 1993): 193–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x00000854.

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ABSTRACTStaying Put projects provide practical help to older home owners with the repair and improvement of their homes. A number of studies have examined the immediate impact of this help on the housing conditions experienced by older people and on their ability to remain living independently in the community, but the extent to which these benefits could last for a long period of time was not known. This paper describes the findings of a study which attempted to examine the longer-term impact of the Staying Put service. A sample of clients helped by Staying Put in the early 1980s were traced and interviewed in order to assess the impact of the assistance received and to examine their current and future housing and care needs. Although the study could not conclusively disentangle the impact of the Staying Put service from other factors influencing the ability of clients to live independently, it concluded that the help received was significant in improving housing conditions over a long period. The study made recommendations which aim to increase the effectiveness of Staying Put projects in the future, including the establishment of a target standard for the housing conditions of clients, the development of mechanisms for continuing contact with clients, and the provision of advice on moving on options where appropriate. More generally, however, the study concluded that more resources to fund services like Staying Put were required from government and from local and health authorities if they were to be more effective in helping clients to live independently.

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Krumer-Nevo, Michal. "What Helps in Help? A New Look at Help for Women in Deep, Long-Term Economic and Social Deprivation." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 84, no. 2 (April 2003): 169–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.99.

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The capacity of women who live in deep and long-term economic and social deprivation to be helped has rarely been examined from the point of view of the women. This paper describes narrative research on the experience of receiving assistance as it is perceived by women who participated in the Yachdav program and were helped by it. Fourteen interviews were analyzed according to the narrative approach and grounded theory. Three patterns of help reception were revealed: (a) The Calming Pattern, in which help is perceived as the possibility to escape—to relax and calm down, (b) The Empowerment Pattern, in which help is perceived as enabling the women to learn, to receive, and strengthen, and (c) The Re-Biography Pattern, in which assistance is perceived as bringing about a new self-awareness. These findings suggest the desirability of reconsidering presuppositions concerning the needs of this population and its capacity to be helped. The results also point to implications for practice and further research.

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Løyland, Borghild, Christine Miaskowski, Espen Dahl, Steven M. Paul, and Tone Rustøen. "Psychological distress and quality of life in long-term social assistance recipients compared to the Norwegian population." Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 39, no. 3 (March 15, 2011): 303–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1403494811401475.

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WALKER, RUTH, LYNSEY BROWN, MEGAN MOSKOS, LINDA ISHERWOOD, KATY OSBORNE, KATE PATEL, and DEB KING. "‘They really get you motivated’: Experiences of a life-first employment programme from the perspective of long-term unemployed Australians." Journal of Social Policy 45, no. 3 (February 4, 2016): 507–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279416000027.

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AbstractLong-term unemployment can negatively impact health and well-being, and is a central focus of governments seeking to address poverty and social exclusion. Little is known about how individuals experience programmes aimed at addressing long-term unemployment and consequently the client-centred indicators of ‘success’. In-depth interviews were carried out with 31 long-term unemployed individuals engaged in a ‘life-first’ programme integrating vocational assistance with intensive personal strengths-based support. The participants in this programme faced multiple disadvantages including employment and educational barriers as well as a range of significant personal issues. They equated successful outcomes in the programme with receiving a wealth of psychosocial and practical assistance in addition to vocational support, and having a case manager who approached these issues as a whole. Findings suggest that, in order to provide the best chance of gaining and maintaining employment, programmes should address, in tandem, personal and vocational barriers facing those who are long-term unemployed.

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Efiyanti, Alfiana Yuli, and Esa Nur Wahyuni. "Fenomena Kehidupan Remaja Yatim/Piatu di Dusun Sendang Biru Kabupaten Malang." JKI (Jurnal Konseling Indonesia) 4, no. 2 (April 10, 2019): 48–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.21067/jki.v4i2.3115.

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Young generation, especially teenagers, plays a very important role in the nation's sustainability. However, it becomes hard situation for orphan teenagers as they live in abnormal situations. In Sendang Biru, Sumbermanjing Wetan Malang, orphan teenagers experience problems that occur due to their orphan status. There are various social problems, that relating to economic and psychological problems. Continuously attention and assistance has been provided by the community through the social community “An Nisa”. However, because the assistance is short-term and momentary, it only touches a small number of problems faced, and has not touched other psychological and social domains. We strongly recommend Sendang Biru community, government and higher education institutions to develop long-term programs that can solve the whole problems of orphan teenagers in Sendang Biru.

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Tarasuk, Valerie, Naomi Dachner, and Rachel Loopstra. "Food banks, welfare, and food insecurity in Canada." British Food Journal 116, no. 9 (August 26, 2014): 1405–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bfj-02-2014-0077.

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Purpose – Similar to the recent emergence of food banks in other affluent nations, the genesis and ultimate entrenchment of food banks in Canada has been tightly intertwined with the dismantling of the welfare state. Through an examination of Canadian data, the authors elucidate the implications of entrenching voluntary, extra-governmental, charitable food assistance programs as an adjunct to publicly funded social assistance programs. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Publicly available food bank reports, population health survey data, and the results of a study of low-income families in Toronto are reviewed to examine the food security status of social assistance recipients and their use of food banks. Findings – In 2012, 70 percent of households in Canada who were reliant on social assistance were food insecure. Social assistance recipients comprise at least half of food bank clientele and have done so for as long as this information has been tracked, but the assistance provided by food banks appears insufficient to alter households’ food insecurity. Although food banks currently distribute over 200 million pounds of food annually, the scale of their operations pales in comparison to the food needs of those who seek their help. Originality/value – In the 30 years since food banks began in Canada, there has been considerable research into this response, as well as extensive population monitoring of food insecurity. Canada provides an informative case study of an affluent country's long-term dependency on charitable food assistance and the impact this has on the food insecurity of those reliant on social assistance programs.

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Paju, Jaan. "Internal coordination of social security in Sweden." European Journal of Social Security 21, no. 2 (May 31, 2019): 174–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1388262719847844.

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This article begins with an overview of the structure of local governance in Sweden. It then examines the division of competences between municipalities and county councils, and the population register that determines the applicable law. Following this, the article focuses on health care schemes and the possibility for the competent county council to determine substantive health care. The municipalities’ responsibility for long term social care is then considered. Finally, the municipalities’ room for manoeuvre in relation to the social assistance scheme is reviewed. The concluding section discusses Sweden’s decentralised approach to social security.

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Batavia, Andrew I. "A Right to Personal Assistance Services: “Most Integrated Setting Appropriate” Requirements and the Independent Living Model of Long-term Care." American Journal of Law & Medicine 27, no. 1 (2001): 17–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0098858800011151.

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The United States is currently entering a period in which the demand for longterm care services is growing at a particularly rapid rate; it is projected that the inflation-adjusted expenditures for long-term care will double between 1993 and 2018. As the population continues to age and become more chronically ill and disabled, the need to expand our long-term care capacity, and the long-term care options available, has become self-evident. The question is how we can meet this need in a cost-effective manner that is satisfactory to the consumer of services.

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Poole, Ed Gareth, and Guto Ifan. "Internal coordination of social security in the United Kingdom." European Journal of Social Security 21, no. 2 (May 31, 2019): 153–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1388262719844984.

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Although social security is traditionally viewed as a highly centralised function in the UK, health care and long-term social care have long been devolved to sub-state governments, an arrangement requiring extensive internal coordination agreements. This coordination has various objectives, including ensuring parity of benefits provision in Northern Ireland (where social assistance is devolved) and Great Britain (where it is centralised), securing financial reimbursements for cross-border health care provision, and determining responsibility and eligibility criteria for individuals in need of social care. Further devolution and decentralisation of social security benefits over the past decade have made such coordination arrangements even more essential.

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Yi, Fangxin, and Yong Tu. "An Evaluation of the Paired Assistance to Disaster-Affected Areas Program in Disaster Recovery: The Case of the Wenchuan Earthquake." Sustainability 10, no. 12 (November 28, 2018): 4483. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10124483.

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The Wenchuan earthquake, which happened in May 2008 in China, was one of the most destructive natural disasters of the past decade. The Chinese government implemented several aid programs, including the Paired Assistance to Disaster-Affected Areas (PADAA) program, to assist with disaster recovery. Although the Wenchuan earthquake has gained much scholarly attention, previous studies often adopted different recovery measures and provided fragmented empirical evidence on how an aid program may have influenced the recovery process in both the short and long term. To bridge the gap, this paper collects eight social, economic, and institutional indicators to measure four types of recovery processes, namely, economic recovery, social recovery, institutional recovery, and built environment recovery. The data, collected between 2002 and 2015, covers 269 earthquake-stricken counties. Based on this data, we constructed a set of disaster recovery indexes. We then evaluated the impacts of the PADAA program on the disaster recovery process across the 269 counties in both the short and long term. We concluded that the impact of the PADAA program on the post-disaster economic recovery was significant in both the short and long term, whereas its impact on the recovery of the institutional and built environment occurred in the short term. Its impact on post-disaster social recovery was inconclusive.

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Pun, Bishwa Ratna, and Gyanendra Kumar Shrestha. "Assessment of Child Sensitive Social Protection Programmes in Nepal." Journal of Social Protection 1 (December 1, 2020): 51–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jsp.v1i0.38211.

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Studies have shown that social protection programme can be detrimental to children if it is not designed and implemented in a proper way. Even programmes focusing on children can be counter-effective and can leave a long-term adverse effect in the lives of children. This article aims to assess the children focused social protection programmes in Nepal from a child rights perspective with a specific consideration around the area of social assistance. This article adopts a Core Diagnostic Systems Assessment Instrument (CODI) tool and is primarily based on secondary data. Results show that the current social protection system, especially focused on children, in Nepal lacks several elements of child sensitivity such as ‘adequacy’, ‘respect rights and dignity’ in designing and implementation. Furthermore, though the Government of Nepal prioritise social assistance by channeling reasonable funding, the share of children focused programmes is relatively low. Any investment made on children currently, would result in their better future and the country at large. Thus, increasing social assistance targeting children will contribute to better child protection and eventually have significant development impacts. This will also be critical in ensuring the rights of children in general and vulnerable children in particular.

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Abdallah, Saade, Rebekah Heinzen, and Gilbert Burnham. "Immediate and long-term assistance following the bombing of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania." Disasters 31, no. 4 (October 10, 2007): 417–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.2007.01017.x.

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Nathan, Martha A., and Elliot Fratkin. "The Lives of Street Women and Children in Hawassa, Ethiopia." African Studies Review 61, no. 1 (March 8, 2018): 158–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2017.135.

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Abstract:Despite gains in national income, Ethiopia’s cities have seen a steady increase of homeless women and children. This study focuses on the lives of twenty-five adult women and twenty-seven children living on the streets of Hawassa, Ethiopia. Nearly all were driven to the streets by poverty compounded by abuse and violence and/or loss of supporting family members, illness, and lack of social supports. The Ethiopian government offers a food-for-work program, but this is an inadequate social safety net. Recommendations include government provision of long-term shelter, food assistance, school supplies for children, legal and economic assistance, and access to medical care.

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Pollard, Booth, Jancey, Mackintosh, Pulker, Wright, Begley, et al. "Long-Term Food Insecurity, Hunger and Risky Food Acquisition Practices: A Cross-Sectional Study of Food Charity Recipients in an Australian Capital City." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 15 (August 1, 2019): 2749. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16152749.

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Inadequate social protection, stagnant wages, unemployment, and homelessness are associated with Australian household food insecurity. Little is known about the recipients of food charity and whether their needs are being met. This cross-sectional study of 101 food charity recipients in Perth, Western Australia, measured food security, weight status, sociodemographic characteristics and food acquisition practices. Seventy-nine percent were male, aged 21–79 years, 90% were unemployed, 87% received social assistance payments, and 38% were homeless. Ninety-one percent were food insecure, 80% with hunger, and 56% had gone a day or more without eating in the previous week. Fifty-seven percent had used food charity for ≥1 year, and, of those, 7.5 years was the mode. Charitable services were the main food source in the previous week, however 76% used multiple sources. Begging for money for food (36%), begging for food (32%), stealing food or beverages (34%), and taking food from bins (28%) was commonplace. The omnipresence and chronicity of food insecurity, reliance on social security payments, and risky food acquisition suggest that both the social protection and charitable food systems are failing. Urgent reforms are needed to address the determinants of food insecurity (e.g., increased social assistance payments, employment and housing support) and the adequacy, appropriateness and effectiveness of food charity.

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Bergnehr, Disa. "Unemployment and conditional welfare: Exclusion and belonging in immigrant women's discourse on being long-term dependent on social assistance." International Journal of Social Welfare 25, no. 1 (May 6, 2015): 18–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12158.

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Løyland, Borghild, Christine Miaskowski, Astrid Klopstad Wahl, and Tone Rustøen. "Prevalence and Characteristics of Chronic Pain Among Long-term Social Assistance Recipients Compared to the General Population in Norway." Clinical Journal of Pain 26, no. 7 (September 2010): 624–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ajp.0b013e3181e0de43.

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Løyland, Borghild, Christine Miaskowski, Steven M. Paul, Espen Dahl, and Tone Rustøen. "The relationship between chronic pain and health-related quality of life in long-term social assistance recipients in Norway." Quality of Life Research 19, no. 10 (July 22, 2010): 1457–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11136-010-9707-4.

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Preston, Rosemary. "Refugees in Papua New Guinea: Government Response and Assistance, 1984–1988." International Migration Review 26, no. 3 (September 1992): 843–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019791839202600305.

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Melanesian West Papuans have been seeking refuge in Papua New Guinea since Indonesia annexed the province of Irian Jaya in 1962. The slowness of the Papua New Guinean government to respond to the 12,000 who crossed the border in 1984 paved the way for subsequent policy of minimal assistance so as not to jeopardize national security, by antagonizing Indonesia or by exacerbating the jealously of local people. As in other places, the long-term effect for refugees is likely to be social and economic marginalization, combined with insecure residential status.

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MCDONNELL, SHARON, RICHARD P. TROIANO, NANCY BARKER, ERIC NOJI, W. GARY HLADY, and RICHARD HOPKINS. "Evaluation of Long-term Community Recovery from Hurricane Andrew: Sources of Assistance Received by Population Sub-groups." Disasters 19, no. 4 (December 1995): 338–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.1995.tb00354.x.

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Matkovic, Gordana. "Long-term care of the elderly: Current status, policies and dilemmas." Stanovnistvo 50, no. 1 (2012): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/stnv1201001m.

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In Serbia, the long-term care as a system does not actually exist. One part of the system is regulated through cash benefits, one part through institutional social care and community-based social services, and one part is just being established under the health care system. The linkages among these segments are not strong and there is insufficient awareness of the need to regard the different parts of the system as being interdependent and interconnected. According to the different surveys, home care is needed for the daily functioning of more than 80,000 elderly people, especially for around 27,000 of those who are completely immobile. More than 300 thousand elderly persons have indicated that they are in need of some type of self-care support. By tradition, elderly people in Serbia rely primarily on family support. Some are getting the state support as well. Research shows that 62 thousand elderly persons (5 percent) receive attendance allowance; 9,000 elderly are accommodated in institutions (0.7 percent), while 11.7 thousand (1 percent) persons received some type of support through home care community based services. In addition, in Belgrade there are also 2,000 elderly who are beneficiaries of medical and palliative care at home. The government expenditures for these purposes can be very roughly estimated at 0.55 percent of GDP, largely for cash benefits (0.37 percent). Considered over a medium and longer term, the government expenditures on longterm care in Serbia will inevitably increase significantly, primarily due to an increase in the number and share of elderly people and the increase in additional life years spent in ill health or in need of assistance. An increase in the expenditures will also be influenced by a change in the family models and the increasing number of elderly that will be living alone, as well as the diminishing possibilities for reliance on the closest family members, especially due to emigration flows both at local and national levels. Finally, it is important not to neglect the effect of emulating more developed countries, as well as the EU?s pressure to adequately respond to the needs of the elderly. Therefore, the state and society must promptly prepare a systematic, comprehensive, timely and fiscally responsible response. This response must recognize the capacities of all stakeholders, from family to state and non-state and match the capacities with the appropriate roles in the system of long-term care provision.

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