Empowering the Elderly? : : How ›Help to Self-Help‹ Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark / / Amy Clotworthy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• Funder: des Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Copenhagen
• VerfasserIn: Clotworthy, Amy,
• Author: des Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Copenhagen
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Aging Studies ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 From help to self-help: the transformation of eldercare in Denmark -- 2 ‘Following the rhetoric’ in a Danish municipality -- PART I: LABOUR – activity related to the biological process of the human body -- Introduction -- 3 Evaluating the body’s need for help -- 4 Embodying potential -- Summary -- PART II: WORK – activity related to the artificial world of structures and objects -- Introduction -- 5 Navigating public/private divisions -- 6 Stabilising the home to promote ‘ageing in place’ -- Summary -- PART III: ACTION – activity related to the human condition of plurality -- Introduction -- 7 Offering free choice and empowerment -- 8 Producing a ‘shared responsibility’ for care -- Summary -- 9 CONCLUSION: Transforming eldercare in Denmark -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- APPENDIX A -- Overview of key informants -- APPENDIX B -- Declaration of confidentiality for the municipality (Tavshedserklæring til kommunen) -- Criminal record (straffeattest) -- APPENDIX C -- Informeret samtykke – kommunale personale -- Informed consent – municipal personnel -- Informeret samtykke – borgere -- Informed consent – citizens