Empowering the Elderly?

How ›Help to Self-Help‹ Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark

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• Amy Clotworthy

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• 262 Seiten
• 10 Lesestunden

• Sozialwissenschaften

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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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020