Empowering the Elderly?: How Help to Self-Help Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark - Couverture souple

Amy Clotworthy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3837652114 ISBN 13 : 9783837652116

Editeur : Transcript Verlag, 2021

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Amy Clotworthy holds a Ph.D. in ethnology and a Master's degree in applied cultural analysis, both from the University of Copenhagen. In her position at the interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Aging (CEHA), she teaches and conducts research on how health and social policies targeting older people influence the sociocultural dynamics of later life. With an emphasis on everyday health practices, her research also investigates how the Danish healthcare sector, hospitals, and municipal authorities can improve professional practices by recognising the complexity of older people's life histories as well as the individual needs and priorities they express in their personal narratives.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Transcript Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3837652114
• ISBN 13: 9783837652116
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 262
• Coordonnées du fabricant: live@transcript-verlag.de; live@transcript-verlag.de; ; Hermannstraße 26; Bielefeld; 33602; Allemagne