Empowering The Elderly How Help To Selfhelp Health Interventions Shape Ageing And Eldercare In Denmark Amy Clotworthy Karlfranzensuniversitt Graz Des Center For Healthy Aging At The University Of Copenhagen by Amy Clotworthy; Karl-franzens-universität Graz; Des Center For Healthy Aging At The University Of Copenhagen 9783839452110, 3839452112 instant download after payment.

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.