"Empowering the Elderly? – How ""Help to Self–Help"" Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in...

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Amy Clotworthy

"Empowering the Elderly? – How ""Help to Self–Help"" Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark"

Amy Clotworthy

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Transcript Verlag
10 December 2021

Popular culture; Age groups: the elderly; Nursing research & theory

Series: Aging Studies

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.

By: Amy Clotworthy
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
ISBN: 9783837652116
ISBN 10: 3837652114
Series: Aging Studies
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 10 December 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amy Clotworthy holds a Ph.D. in ethnology and a Master's degree in applied cultural analysis, both from the University of Copenhagen. In her position at the interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Aging (CEHA), she teaches and conducts public outreach with a focus on how social policies targeting the elderly influence the sociocultural dynamics of later life. With an emphasis on everyday health practices, her research also investigates how ageing adults create relationships with new technologies and digital processes, and how computer-based methods can be used to generate insights into health and ageing.