Habit:AÇÃO: Identificação territorial da vulnerabilidade social e da habitação indigna = Territorial identification of social vulnerability and unworthy housing

The meanings of care and quality of care in Portugal - national report

The expression "Long-Term Care" (LTC) is still today an expression that has no straightforward translation into Portuguese apart from the strict language translation - Cuidados de Longa Duração. Traditionally LTC in Portugal has developed from social assistance and therefore the concept in use more commonly is "social care". But even this, that would translate as 'Cuidados sociais', is used mostly in the scientific literature. In legal and policy documents the term in use is 'Respostas Sociai...

The meanings of long-term care sustainability in Portugal: national report

It was possible to identify a shared understanding of sustainability when revising the literature and when interviewing key stakeholders, although a narrow one: sustainability equates financial sustainability. The word "sustainability" as such is only used in association with financial aspects, both by interviewees, in research papers and in policy documents. Aspects of what one would consider social sustainability are not addressed as such. Discussions on sustainability seem to always circle...

The meanings of long-term care work in Portugal: national report

There is no formal concept of care work in Portugal. The word 'carer' (Cuidador), which has a gender inflexion for the female form (Cuidadora) - which is the form that is used more often - has been historically used to designate informal carers or, in some cases, carers directly employed by the person receiving care or by his/her family to provide in-house care. Professionals employed in the care sector are not usually designated as carers but rather identified by the specific professional gr...