Empowering the Elderly?

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

Autori

• Amy Clotworthy

Parametri

• Scienze sociali

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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.

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2020