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Empowering the Elderly?
How âşHelp to Self-Helpâš Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark
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eBook - PDF
Empowering the Elderly?
How âşHelp to Self-Helpâš Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark
About this book
Health programmes that offer âşhelp to self-helpâš 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 From help to selfâhelp: the transformation of eldercare in Denmark
- 2 âFollowing the rhetoricâ in a Danish municipality
- PART I: LABOUR â activity related to the biological process of the human body
- PART II: WORK â activity related to the artificial world of structures and objects
- PART III: ACTION â activity related to the human condition of plurality
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- APPENDIX A
- APPENDIX B
- APPENDIX C