17.10.2023 Tel Aviv and Online.
Workshop
Putting care in context: Care ethics, care constellations, and caring communities
Time: 17th October 2023, 9.30-14.30
Venue: Bar Ilan University Feldman Building (301), Tel Aviv (Israel) and Online
Organization: Prof. Dr. Liat Ayalon (School of Social Work, Ramat Gan, Israel), Dr. Natalie Ulitsa (School of Social Work, Ramat Gan, Israel), Dr. Milena von Kutzleben (Organizational Health Services Research, Oldenburg, Germany), Dr. Merle Weßel (Ethics in Medicine, Oldenburg, Germany), Anna-Eva Nebowsky (Ethics in Medicine, Oldenburg, Germany), and Prof. Dr. Mark Schweda (Ethics in Medicine, Oldenburg, Germany)
The prevalence of dementia is on the rise globally, posing considerable challenges for families, communities, and healthcare systems. To address the gaps in dementia care, home-based care with migrant caregivers has emerged as a common solution, including in Germany and Israel. This caregiving arrangement, involving individuals with dementia, their relatives, and migrant live-in carers, is influenced by various contextual factors such as family constellation and dynamics, community support, political environment, and legal considerations. These factors can vary between families and across Germany and Israel.
Our collaborative interdisciplinary research project, MoDeCare (https://uol.de/en/ohsr/projects/modecare), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, aims to deepen our understanding of live-in dementia care arrangements in both countries. The primary objective is to develop evidence-based ethical recommendations for care providers and policymakers. By comparing insights from Germany and Israel, we strive to shed light on the specific features and nuances of these arrangements. The preliminary findings of this project will be presented and discussed in our hybrid jointly organized workshop, which will bring together researchers from diverse fields, including medical ethics, dementia care services and research, health services research, sociology, social work, and psychology.
Our workshop aims to examine and discuss various aspects of dementia care in general, with a particular focus on live-in care arrangements. We will explore these topics within the frameworks of care ethics, care constellations, and caring communities. This comprehensive approach will enable us to gain a holistic perspective that acknowledges the familial, communal, social, and legal dimensions of caregiving. The workshop will place special emphasis on highlighting the interconnected nature of dementia care in general and live-in care arrangements in particular, underlining the significance of ethical considerations, collective efforts, and community support.
Registration:
The number of places is limited. Please register as an in-person or online participant by sending an email to Natalie Ulitsa (nata-ul@hotmail.com) by September 30, 2023.
Programme:
09.30-09.45 Welcome to the hybrid workshop (Prof. Liat Ayalon and Prof. Mark Schweda)
09.45-10.00 Spoken Word Poetry: „A cure for dementia“ Mrs. Noa Levy, a spoken word poetry artist and doctoral fellow, Bar-Ilan University
10.00-10.45 Session 1: Care, Live-in Care, and Care Constellations (Chair: Dr. Milena von Kutzleben)
10.00-10.15 Comparative ethical exploration of moral conflicts in familial dementia care involving migrant Live-in Carers: Preliminary results from Germany and Israel (Dr.Natalie Ulitsa, Bar Ilan University & Ms. Anna-Eva Nebowsky, University of Oldenburg)
10.15-10.30 A good enough metaphor’: Female migrant caregivers using Motherhood as an interpretative framework for personal and professional relationships (Dr. Sharon Ramer Biel, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo)
10.30-10.45 A micro caregiving initiation: Remarriage of older widowed Muslim men in Israel (Dr. Chaya Koren, University of Haifa)
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.00 Session 2: Caring communities (Chair: Dr. Natalie Ultisa)
11.00-11.15 Dementia Friends program in Israel: Key findings from an evaluation study (Dr. Shiri Shinan-Altman, School of Social Work, Bar Ilan University) & Prof. (Emerita) Perla Werner, Department of Community Mental Health, University of Haifa.
11.15-11.30 Needs, services, and support for caregivers of people with dementia at home (Mrs. Debi Lahav, Emda, Israel Alzheimer’s Association)
11:30-11:45 The digital community of live-in caregivers on Facebook: The Case of Filipino migrant workers in Israel ( Dr. Deby Babis, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ariel University)
11:45-12:00 Dementia care for culturally diverse groups: Insights from a pilot study and next steps to consider (Dr. Zümrüt Alpinar Sencan, Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Germany)
12.00-13.00 Lunch Break / Poster Session (Dr. Hanan Abujabal; Dr. Pnina Dolberg; Dr. Daniela Arieli)
13.00-14.30 Session 3: Care and care ethics (Chair: Anna-Eva Nebowsky)
13.00-13.15 Who takes care of the caregivers in nursing homes? On the possible relationships between vulnerability and mistreatment (Dr. Sagit Lev, School of Social Work, Bar Ilan University & Dr. Pnina Dolberg, Department of Social Work, Ruppin Academic Center)
13.15-13.30 Facets of cross-border mobility for live-in care work in Germany. An ethnographic approach to the global phenomenon (Dr. Tanja Višić, Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany)
13.30-13.45 Ethical aspects of medical and nursing care of people with dementia with a migration background (Prof. Hürrem Tezcan-Güntekin, The Alice-Salomon-Hochschule Berlin)
13.45-14.00 My lifeline: The living and caregiving experience in the eyes of a foreign caregiver (Mrs. Ann Pabion, Caregiver from the Philippines)
14.00-14.30 Discussion and closing remarks: Prof. Amber M. Gum (Department of Mental Health Law & Policy, University of South Florida), Prof. Liat Ayalon, and Prof. Mark Schweda