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Access to Socio-Cultural Life inside Assisted Care Homes?: Overviewing Legislation in Finland and Kazakhstan

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  • Riekkinen Mariya
  • Kozhabek Kanat
  • Zhatkanbayeva Aizhan
  • Riekkinen Pekka

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This is a comparative survey of two national legal frameworks in Finland and Kazakhstan providing the elderly in assisted care homes with an opportunity of socio-cultural inclusion. The study departs from the evolving international standards of ageing, which dictate legal obligations to provide the elderly in residential care with access to socio-cultural activities. Our analysis continues with explorations how these standards are reflected in legislation of two selected states. We deliberately selected these two jurisdictions, different in many respects, the most significant of which are the current state of the welfare system and the approach towards elderly care. The residential care in Finland is the primary responsibility of the state, a common modern solution adapted to meet the realities of the modern volatile labor market, career and self-oriented life style and hectic differentiating global economy. In Kazakhstan such care is provided by the state only for those older persons who are in difficult life situation, whereas the able relatives are legally responsible for providing care for the elderly in need of 24 / 7 assistance. Respectively Kazakhstan’s social order relies extensively on family ties.

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  • Riekkinen Mariya & Kozhabek Kanat & Zhatkanbayeva Aizhan & Riekkinen Pekka, 2016. "Access to Socio-Cultural Life inside Assisted Care Homes?: Overviewing Legislation in Finland and Kazakhstan," NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, Sciendo, vol. 9(2), pages 199-216, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:njopap:v:9:y:2016:i:2:p:199-216:n:9
    DOI: 10.1515/nispa-2016-0020
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