Title: Care at home : voluntary care in the lives of those who provide and need help in three (post)socialist states
Source document: Studia historica Brunensia. 2022, vol. 69, iss. 1, pp. 175-194
Extent
175-194
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ISSN1803-7429 (print)2336-4513 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/SHB2022-1-9
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/145164
Type: Article
Language
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License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International
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Abstract(s)
During the state socialist era in the GDR, the People's Republic of Poland and Czechoslovakia, care for the elderly and people in need of help was often provided at home. Volunteers from the national Red Cross societies, the East German organization People's Solidarity or neighborhood helpers from the residential area cared for needy people in the place that determined their reality of life – their own home. The way in which the home shaped social voluntary care for helpers and those in need before and after 1989 will be the subject of this paper. Keywords: care, elderly, home, volunteering, state socialism, German Democratic Republic, People's Republic of Poland, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.