Municipality of Norrköping – Community Care department, based in Sweden, has a research and development group that operates in the community care sector. Its purpose is to create a platform to link researchers, professionals, citizens and end users. It also contributes to a more in-depth analysis for an increased quality through knowledge development.
Areas of Intervention
- Older people
- People with physical disabilities
- People with mental disabilities
- Mental health
- Public Health
- People who are socially vulnerable
- People in situations of difficulty or precarity
- Gender equality
- Recipients of care
Responsibilities/ Services
- Providing social services
- Transformation of care models
- Promotion of systemic change
- Role of the social worker
- Integration of technological tools
- Issuing of guidelines and policies for the district’s councils
- Capacity building and training
- Professional training
- Training of social welfare workforce
- Research and development
- Conducting inspections
- Maintaining networks for managers and social workers
- Management of public nursing homes and day centres for older people
- Home care services for older and dependent people
- Consulting services and specialised studies for local governments regarding older people facilities
- Emotional support groups for family caregivers
- fostering cooperation with non-governmental organisations and the promotion of social volunteering.
- Research/ identifying and monitoring of social problems
- Representing and defending interests of their members
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