ISBN:
978-3-8394-5211-0
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (244 Seiten) :
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Series Statement:
Aging studies volume 20
Series Statement:
Aging studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Dissertation note:
Dissertation University of Copenhagen 2017
Keywords:
Aging Studies
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Body
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Care
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Cultural Studies
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Denmark
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Eldercare
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Health Initiatives
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Medicine
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Qualitative Social Research
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Reablement
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology
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Gemeinde.
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Altenhilfe.
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Alter.
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Empowerment.
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Rehabilitation.
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Selbstverantwortung.
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Diskurs.
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Dänemark.
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Hochschulschrift
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Gemeinde
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Altenhilfe
;
Alter
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Empowerment
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Rehabilitation
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Selbstverantwortung
;
Diskurs
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.14361/9783839452110
DOI:
10.1515/9783839452110
URL:
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