Empowering the Elderly?
How ›Help to Self-Help‹ Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark
- 262 Seiten
- 10 Lesestunden
Health programs that offer "help to self-help" are meant to empower aging adults to remain independent and self-sufficient at home. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish municipality, Amy Clotworthy describes how both health professionals and elderly citizens negotiate political discourses about health and aging.
