TY  - GEN
T1  - Empowering the Elderly? : How 'Help to Self-Help' Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark
T2  - Aging studies ;
A1  - Clotworthy, Amy
LA  - English
PP  - Bielefeld
PB  - Transcipt
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1178633499
AB  - 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
NO  - 8.2 Caring action and shared decision-making
CN  - HV1481.D4 C56 2020
SN  - 9783839452110
SN  - 3839452112
SN  - 9783837652116
KW  - Older people : Care : Denmark.
KW  - Older people : Home care : Denmark.
KW  - Older people : Services for : Denmark.
KW  - Personnes âgées : Soins : Danemark.
KW  - Personnes âgées : Soins à domicile : Danemark.
KW  - Personnes âgées : Services : Danemark.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Gerontology.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology
KW  - Older people : Care
KW  - Older people : Home care
KW  - Older people : Services for
KW  - Denmark
KW  - Aging Studies.
KW  - Body.
KW  - Care.
KW  - Cultural Studies.
KW  - Denmark.
KW  - Eldercare.
KW  - Health Initiatives.
KW  - Medicine.
KW  - Qualitative Social Research.
KW  - Reablement.
ER  -