Biståndshandläggning - en fråga om skälig levnadsnivå

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this paper was to examine how care managers in municipal elderly care work and how they relate to the term reasonable standard of living and the term dignity in their occupation. Also if care managers are affected by municipal directives and administrative procedures in their work and if those have an impact on how care managers relate to the terms responsible standard of living and dignity. To perform our study we used a semi structured qualitative method where we interviewed five care managers and one unit manager, all working in a public authority in a municipality in southern Sweden. The study has given an insight in how care managers work in municipal elderly care and how they are affected in their work by the law, the terms responsible living standard and dignity, municipal directives and administrative procedures. Keywords: care manager, municipal elderly care, municipal directives, administrative procedures, responsible standard of living, dignity.