Norway
Homelessness Research and Policy Development: Examples from the Nordic Countries
The interaction between research and policy development has
played an important role in the transformation of homelessness policies and services over the last decade.
This article will focus on the Nordic countries, where there has been close interaction between research and policy development in the formation of national strategies and programmes.
2016
Themes:
Housing first for homeless people in Norway
The number of homeless people in Norway has not diminished. An analysis in 2012 revealed 6,200 persons with no residences.
2015
Themes:
80+ living in Scandinavia
Average life expectancy in Scandinavia is increasing, anticipating that the number of people aged over 80 will double in the next decades in Scandinavia. Care for the elderly is therefore being reappraised and developed.
2013
The Nordic Model: evolutions in care and space for the dependant ageing in Sweden with some relevance to Denmark and Norway
During the 20th century, the Nordic countries, Denmark with Faroe Islands and Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, have realized five different but similar-looking welfare states, in which social services are distributed in an egalitarian and uniform way.
This paper focuses on eldercare and architecture intended to be used for eldercare.
2011
Residential care for the Elderly on the North Atlantic Fringe: Cape Breton Island, the Faeroe Islands and Northern Norway.
The purpose of this study was to examine if there were any lessons to be learned in the field of elderly residential care provision in remote, rural and island locations in the Faeroe Islands, Cape Breton and Northern Norway.
These locations provided examples of innovative and needs-led elderly care service delivery. They had universal, state funded and managed elderly care residential sectors.
2010
"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."