TY - BOOK

T1 - Empowering the elderly?

T2 - How ‘help to self-help’ interventions shape ageing and eldercare in Denmark

AU - Clotworthy, Amy

PY - 2020/7

Y1 - 2020/7

N2 - 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.

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.

UR - https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-5211-6/empowering-the-elderly/?c=410025273&number=978-3-8394-5211-0

U2 - 10.14361/9783839452110

DO - 10.14361/9783839452110

M3 - Book

SN - 9783837652116

T3 - Aging Studies

BT - Empowering the elderly?

PB - Transcript Verlag

CY - Bielefeld, Germany

ER -