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Title: Blurring and Bridging: The Role of Volunteers in Dementia Care within Homes and Communities
Author(s): McCall, Vikki
McCabe, Louise
Rutherford, Alasdair
Bu, Feifei
Wilson, Michael
Woolvin, Mike
Contact Email: vikki.mccall1@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: housing
volunteering
dementia
communities
policy
third sector
Issue Date: Jul-2020
Date Deposited: 24-Jul-2019
Citation: McCall V, McCabe L, Rutherford A, Bu F, Wilson M & Woolvin M (2020) Blurring and Bridging: The Role of Volunteers in Dementia Care within Homes and Communities. Journal of Social Policy, 49 (3), pp. 622-642. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279419000692
Abstract: Policy makers across the political spectrum have extolled the virtues of volunteering in achieving social policy aims. Yet little is known about the role that volunteering plays in addressing one of the significant challenges of an ageing population: the provision of care and support to people with dementia. We combine organisational survey data, secondary social survey data, and in-depth interviews with people with dementia, family carers and volunteers in order to better understand the context, role and challenges in which volunteers support people with dementia. Social policies connecting volunteering and dementia care in homes and communities often remain separate and disconnected and our paper draws on the concept of policy ‘assemblages’ to suggest that dementia care is a dynamic mixture of formal and informal volunteering activities that bridge and blur traditional policy boundaries. Linking home and community environments is a key motivation, benefit and outcome for volunteers, carers and those living with dementia. The paper calls to widen the definition and investigation of volunteering in social policy to include and support informal volunteering activity.
DOI Link: 10.1017/S0047279419000692
Rights: This article has been published in a revised form in Journal of Social Policy https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-social-policy. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © Cambridge University Press 2020.
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