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Empowering the Elderly? : How 'Help to Self-Help' Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark
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- Creator
- Amy Clotworthy
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Bielefeld : Transcipt, [2020]
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 9783839452110, 9783837652116, 3837652114, 3839452112
- OCLC
- on1178633499
- 8.2 Caring action and shared decision-making
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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