No Place Like Home: Domiciliary Care Services for Older People in Ireland

This project (September 2005-August 2006) analysed the causes and consequences of the shift towards greater public sector involvement in the financing of care, the rise of private sector providers and the changes in the non-profit sector away from its voluntarist origins. Extensive semi-structured interviews with nearly 100 public, private and non-profit sector care workers and their managers were carried out to paint a picture of the provision and financing of home care for older persons in Dublin.

The results of this project have been published in a book with the above title (Liffey Press, Dublin, 2006) and as journal articles, including articles forthcoming in 2007 in the Journal of Aging Studies, and the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. A separate 4-page research brief was prepared with the view to disseminating the findings to a wider, more policy-focused audience (download brief in PDF format 276kb).