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Clotworthy

Empowering the Elderly?

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

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2020

262 S. Dispersionsbindung, 6 SW-Abbildungen.

In englischer Sprache

Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Copenhagen. ISBN 978-3-8394-5211-0

Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Aging Studies

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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="">