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docxTopic: Total Institution
Source 1:
Jana Mali, Comparison of the characteristics of homes for older people in Slovenia with Goffman’s concept of the total institution. European Journal of Social Work, Vol. 11, 431-443.
Summary:
The author tells that older people were usually home-cared, and that should be changed. She supports the need for an institutional care for older people as their population is increasing and home care does not fully satisfy the needs for older people in Slovenia. People working in an institution have related professions and knowledge for taking care of older people. Thus, an institutional care is better for older people. The author uses Goffmans concept of total institution to support her opinion. In her article, Goffmans total institution concept is defined as "a place for work and life where a large number of individuals with a similar status live together for an extended period of time, isolated from wider society and forced to live a common, formal and guided life."
Authors authority:
Jana Mali, the author of the article, is a faculty of Social Work at University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She shows her findings from her study by using tables which is based on observations, interviews, surveys and analyses of valid laws which regulate the functioning of homes for older people in Slovenia.
Link to the topic and chapter:
The article, Comparison of the characteristics of homes for older people in Slovenia with
Goffman’s concept of the total institution, is related with and helps me understand my topic, Total Institution, because the author directly relates the institutional care to Goffmans concept of total institution which is covered in the chapter. In addition, she describes the effects of an institutional care for older people and that is one of the effects of a total institution can provide. The effects are the staffs expertise, knowledge and adaptation to patients needs and requirements.
