The information worlds of non resident informal carers: stakeholder...

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Sheila Webber and Pamela McKinney
Information School, University of Sheffield, UK
June 2020
The information worlds of Non-...

Structure
• Aim
• Rationale
• Study methodology & theoretical framework
• Findings
• Next steps
Sheila Webber / Pamela McK...

Aim
• To illuminate the distinctive elements of the information
worlds (Burnett & Jaeger, 2011) of NICs of elderly people
...

Rationale
• It is difficult for the elderly and their carers to cope with the
information they need, in order to make crit...

Methodology
• Semi structured individual or group interviews with 11 people in
7 formal care providers in Sheffield e.g. c...

Information worlds theory
Micro
Level of the individual
Macro
National, social and
political context
Intermediate
e.g. at
...

The macro environment
The intermediate environment
The provision of social care in the UK: policy, outcomes
and measures o...

• Medical care is national (NHS) but variations
between home nations (England/Scotland/Wales/
N. Ireland)
• Social care is...

• The Care Act (2014) requires local authorities to provide
comprehensive neutral information about care and support
servi...

• Ageing population in the UK, 9.2 million people
aged 65+ (Office for National Statistics 2013): this is seen as a
proble...

The macro environment
The intermediate environment
The provision of social care in the UK: policy, outcomes
and measures o...

• The Health and Social care system is fragmented, with
multiple private and public care agencies and charities with
indiv...

• 20,000 carers begin and end a carer journey each year in
Sheffield, it is difficult to provide suitable information for ...

The macro environment
The intermediate environment
The provision of social care in the UK: policy, outcomes
and measures o...

• The carer must learn the insider norms of the Small Worlds
of the different agencies they have to interact with, but
• N...

• NICs’ lack of local knowledge means that NICs have less
knowledge of local support services and infrastructure
• Many in...

Next steps
• We want to carry out case studies, focusing on NICs’
experience
• Would be interested in connecting with rese...

Sheila Webber
Information School
University of Sheffield
s.webber@sheffield.ac.uk
Twitter: @sheilayoshikawa
http://informa...

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