Personal assistants: Ideals of social care‐work and consequences for the Norwegian personal assistance scheme
By: Ingrid Guldvik
Abstract
Ideal models of care change over time. In the case of personal assistance services, the major actors are influenced by different ideals of social care work. This article is based on a survey among personal assistants in Norway, with a central finding that assistants emphasise, to various degrees, the ideal of caring rationality or a service orientation model The personal assistance scheme has many inbuilt dilemmas, such as user‐control in contrast to co‐determination of assistants, as well as continuity of help in contrast to continuity of relations. This article discusses whether matching assistants and users with mutual interests and similar expectations can help to reduce the inbuilt systemic dilemmas.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15017410309512618 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011
Language: English
Page range: 122 - 139
Submitted on: Jan 30, 2002
Accepted on: Sep 30, 2002
Published on: Jul 2, 2003
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2003 Ingrid Guldvik, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.