Aging Studies
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Aging Studies

How 'Help to Self-Help' Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark

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Aging Studies

How 'Help to Self-Help' Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark

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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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Year
2020
ISBN
9783839452110
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Abstract
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 From help to self‐help: the transformation of eldercare in Denmark
  8. 2 ‘Following the rhetoric’ in a Danish municipality
  9. PART I: LABOUR – activity related to the biological process of the human body
  10. PART II: WORK – activity related to the artificial world of structures and objects
  11. PART III: ACTION – activity related to the human condition of plurality
  12. Afterword
  13. Bibliography
  14. APPENDIX A
  15. APPENDIX B
  16. APPENDIX C