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1 online resource |
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Aging Studies ; volume 20 |
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Aging studies ; v. 20.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- The construction of 'the elderly' and the paradox of the Third Age -- The emergence of the 'limited yet limitless' ageing consumer -- Reablement or 'everyday-rehabilitation' programmes in Scandinavia -- The book's motivation, aim, and relevance -- Examining eldercare encounters through the lens of 'empowerment' -- Overview of the book's chapters -- 1 From help to self-help: the transformation of eldercare in Denmark -- 1.1 Understanding 'healthy ageing' in Denmark -- 1.2 Denmark's emergence as a welfare state |
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1.3 Denmark's emergence as a competition state -- 1.4 The 2007 reforms and the empowerment of the municipalities -- 1.5 The changing role of municipal health professionals -- 2 'Following the rhetoric' in a Danish municipality -- 2.1 The municipality as a site of ethnographic inquiry -- 2.2 Municipal introduction programme and entering 'the field' -- 2.3 Attending municipal community events for the elderly -- 2.4 Fieldwork among three groups of health professionals -- 2.5 Interviews and other research: places, people, policies, and perspectives |
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2.6 Gaining insight from an intersubjective, situated position -- 2.7 Ethical obligations and the handling of empirical material -- PART I: LABOUR -- activity related to the biological process of the human body -- Introduction -- 3 Evaluating the body's need for help -- 3.1 The primacy of the rational consumer's physical body -- 3.2 A focus on offering 'opportunities' -- 3.3 The mindful agency of active consumer-citizens -- 3.4 Engaging the 'limited yet limitless' body -- Summary -- 4 Embodying potential -- 4.1 Developing the body's potential for self-help |
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4.2 The embodiment of self-helping habits -- 4.3 The importance of repetition and praise -- 4.4 When the body lacks potential -- Summary -- PART II: WORK -- activity related to the artificial world of structures and objects -- Introduction -- 5 Navigating public/private divisions -- 5.1 Crossing the home's threshold -- 5.2 Evaluating the home as a setting for ageing in place -- 5.3 Negotiating the home as a public/private space -- 5.4 When a lack of privacy is welcome -- Summary -- 6 Stabilising the home to promote 'ageing in place' -- 6.1 Re-stabilising the home as a place of security |
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6.2 The significance of home-based routines -- 6.3 Adjusting the home's materiality to provide security -- 6.4 Feeling secure in the public space outside of the home -- Summary -- PART III: ACTION -- activity related to the human condition of plurality -- Introduction -- 7 Offering free choice and empowerment -- 7.1 Locating the power of the Will -- 7.2 Encountering a citizen's 'messy subjectivity' -- 7.3 Empowerment through free choice -- 7.4 Relinquishing free choice -- Summary -- 8 Producing a 'shared responsibility' for care -- 8.1 Encountering 'irrational' citizens |
| Summary |
Health programmes that offer "help to self-help" are meant to empower ageing adults to remain independent and self-sufficient at home for as long as possible. But what happens when the private home becomes a political realm in which state intervention and individual agency happen simultaneously? Based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish municipality, Amy Clotworthy describes how both health professionals and elderly citizens negotiate the political discourses about health and ageing that frame their relational encounter. By elucidating some of the conflicts, paradoxes, and negotiations that occur, she provides important insights into the contemporary organisation of eldercare |
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8.2 Caring action and shared decision-making |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 10, 2021) |
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Older people -- Care -- Denmark
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Older people -- Home care -- Denmark
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Older people -- Services for -- Denmark
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gerontology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology
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Older people -- Care
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Older people -- Home care
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Older people -- Services for
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Denmark
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783839452110 |
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3839452112 |
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