WORKSHOP 12:
Partnerships in Changing Communities:
Cooperation between local authorities, citizens and service providers as a response to
demographic change
Anke Boeckenhoff, Ulrich Kuhn
Who are you?
1. Do you know any examples of
multigenerational housing or caring communities in your country?
2. Do you have any experiences with
co-operations between non-formal
and formal helpers ?
Partnerships in Changing Communities Cooperation between local authorities,
citizens and service providers
Demographic change who cares?
Starting point
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050
Source: World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, http://esa.un.org/wpp/unpp/panel_indicators.htm
Percentage aged 60 or over in %
Denmark France Germany Poland Portugal
Demographic change
What do we need?
• Decrease of the workforce
• Changed family structures
• Increased people in need of care
Solutions at the local level:
• Supply orientated to the local community
+ multigenerational housing + small-spatial support
+ strengthening the individual
responsibility and the solidarity
between citizens
Welfare mix at the local level
Pro- fessional
work- force
Welfare
mix
management
Pre- vention
& family support
Jointly res- ponsible
civil society
Living / technical
assis- tance
elderly
supportive network:
• Relatives
• Neighbours
• Volunteers
• Professionals
• …
Local authority in charge essential:
Political support and
integration of all elements
Practical example:
A home for the elderly, for families, single parents, children, singles and...
• multigenerational housing and living, outside the family
→ new networks
• Prices customary in a place
• Normal housing with social infrastructure
• 26 locations, mostly in rural areas
• Professional community work
→ Being proactive
→ Common activities
→ Welfare mix
donates
Co-operation 1: Institutional level
municipality
Local social fund
municipality Service provider
Community
worker
Service centre
Co-operation 2: civil society
Family &
youth club
Provider of adult education
Child care
network nursing home
welfare centre schools
Church
senior citizens
club
Co-operation partner
The neighbourhood
helps:
Co-operation 3: Individual level
Relatives Nursing
service
Community work
Neighbourly help
Advisory &
resident
Assistent‘s husband/wife
Assistent
Assistent &
resident
Guided self-help
Network Example
23rd European Social Services Conference Workshop „Partnerships in Changing Communities“
