06.-07.03.2024 Online.
Workshop:
Putting care in context: Care ethics, care constellations, and caring communities
Time: 6th-7th March 2024
Venue: Online
Organization: Prof. Dr. Liat Ayalon (The Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Ramat Gan, Israel), Dr. Natalie Ulitsa (The Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Ramat Gan, Israel), Dr. Milena von Kutzleben (Division for Prevention and Rehabilitation Research, Oldenburg, Germany), Anna-Eva Nebowsky, M.A. (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: Please register by sending an email to Natalie Ulitsa (nata-ul@hotmail.com) by February 29, 2024. The workshop link will be sent to you afterwards.
Programme:
06/03/2024
10.00-10.20 Welcome to the hybrid workshop (Prof. Liat Ayalon & Prof. Mark Schweda)
10.20-10.30 Spoken word poetry “Grandmother Power” (Noa Levy, spoken word poetry artist and doctoral fellow, Bar-Ilan University)
10.30-11.15 Session 1: Care, Live-in Care, and Care Constellations (Chair: Dr. Milena von Kutzleben)
10.30-10.45 Presentation 1: Familial dementia home care involving migrant live-in-carers: Comparative analysis of expert’s views in Germany and Israel (Dr. Natalie Ulitsa, Bar Ilan University & Ms. Anna-Eva Nebowsky, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
10.45-11.00 Presentation 2: Homecare as a cross-road of vulnerabilities (Dr. Daniela Arieli, Ruppin Academic Center)
11.00-11.15 Presentation 3: 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)
11.15-11.30 Break
11.30-12.30 Session 2: Care in Context (Chair: Dr. Natalie Ulitsa)
11.30-11.45 Presentation 1: Older immigrants’ perceptions of their care resources: Family, community and state (Dr. Pnina Dolberg, Ruppin Academic Center & Dr. Sagit Lev, Bar-Ilan University)
11.45-12.00 Presentation 2: The role of culture in shaping attitudes of laypersons toward the delivery of care to older people via a robot (Dr. Hanan AboJabel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
12.00-12.15 Presentation 3: Dementia care for culturally diverse groups: Insights from a pilot study and next steps to consider (Dr. Zümrüt Alpinar-Segawa, Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School)
12.15-12.30 Presentation 4: A Micro caregiving initiation: Remarriage of older widowed Muslim men in Israel (Dr. Chaya Koren, University of Haifa)
12.30-12.45 Discussion and Closing Remarks
07/03/2024
10.00-10.45 Session 1: Caring Communities (Chair: Ms. Anna-Eva Nebowsky)
10.00-10.15 Presentation 1: Dementia Friends program in Israel: Key findings from an evaluation study (Dr. Shiri Shinan- Altman, Bar-Ilan University & Prof. (Emerita) Perla Werner, University of Haifa)
10.15-10.30 Presentation 2: Needs, services, and support for caregivers of people with dementia at home (Mrs. Debi Lahav, Emda, the Alzheimer’s Association of Israel)
10.30-10.45 Presentation 3: The digital community of live-in caregivers on Facebook: The Case of Filipino migrant workers in Israel (Dr. Deby Babis, Ariel University)
10.45-11.00 Break
11.00-11.30 Session 2: Care and Care Ethics (Chair: Prof. Mark Schweda)
11.00-11.15 Presentation 1: Who takes care of the caregivers in nursing homes? On the possible relationships between vulnerability and mistreatment (Dr. Sagit Lev, Bar-Ilan University & Dr. Pnina Dolberg, Ruppin Academic Center)
11.15-11.30 Presentation 2: 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 München)
11.30-12.00 Discussion and Closing Remarks (Prof. Amber M. Gum, Department of Mental Health Law & Policy, University of South Florida; Prof. Liat Ayalon; & Prof. Mark Schweda)