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The accommodation of elderly displaced persons in rural families
Dušan Milinković
Sažetak
At the end of 1991 Croatia introduced
various forms of required accommodation
and protection for displaced persons,
which were later perseribed by the
Regulations on the Status of Refugees
and Displaced Persons of the Government
of the Republic of Croatia. These
regulations include placement into other
families as a form of accommodation. In
his article the author presents the results
of research into family accommodation in
rural households and its effect on the two
categories involved: the rural households
and the displaced persons over 60 years
of age, i.e. elderly people. This solution
was decided on both because rural
households could accept not only people
who had escaped from villages but also
the mechanization and livestock they had
managed to save, and because of the
psychophysical difficulties of old people to
organize their life in general, and
especially under conditions of refuge,
immediate danger and stress.
Accommodation in other families, as a
form of social protection for old and
infirm people, has been part of the theory
and practice of social work for quite a
long time, and under present conditions it
has obtained new contents and
dimensions, whose advantages and
disadvantages are being investigated
through field research. The author does
not limit his attention only to the elderly
refugees and their aclimatization to the
rural families that took them in, but also
to the role of the host household and its
need for social support.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
119753
URI
Datum izdavanja:
12.6.1992.
Posjeta: 792 *