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Personhood, identity and care in advanced old age
As humans live longer, the elderly population increases, and the challenges we face in addressing their needs continue to evolve. This book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by advanced aging in the contemporary world.
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Fragile Resonance
Fragile Resonance describes
the paths carers take as they make meaning of their experiences and
find a sense of moral purpose to sustain them and guide their
decisions. When a parent or partner becomes frail or
disabled, often a family member assumes responsibility for their
care. But family care is a physically and emotionally exhausting
undertaking. Carers experience moments of profound connection as
well as pain and grief. Carers ask themselves questions about the
meaning of family, their entitlement to support, and their capacity
to understand and sympathize with another person's pain.
Based on his research gathering stories of family carers in
Japan and England, Jason Danely traces how care transforms
individual sensibilities and the roles of cultural narratives and
imagination in shaping these transformations, which persist even
after the care recipient has died. Throughout Fragile
Resonance , Danely examines the implications of unpaid carer's
experiences for challenging and enhancing social policies and
institutions, highlighting innovative alternatives grounded in the
practical ethics of care.
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Care across distance
World-wide migration has an unsettling effect on social structures, especially on aging populations and eldercare. This volume investigates how taken-for-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties recalibrated, technological innovations utilized, and spiritual relations pursued and desired, and asks what it means to care at a distance and to age abroad. What it does show is that trans-nationalization of care produces unprecedented convergences of people, objects and spaces that challenge our assumptions about the who, how, and where of care.
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Self-care in later life
\"This volume is uncontestably the most comprehensive and authoritative work on the subject of self-care available to date. It should set the stage for a new policy perspective on building a health care system that incorporates self-care at its core.\"--Lowell S. Levin, Yale School of Public Health Practitioners and researchers who work with older adults are challenged to find ways to strengthen an elderly person's capacity to cope wiht age-related changes that threaten independence. This volume assesses the efficacy of self-care in maintaining autonomy. It applies a broad definition of self-care that includes a range of behaviors undertaken by individuals, families, and communities to enhance health, prevent disease, limit illness, and restore health.
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Combining paid work and family care : policies and experiences in international perspective
Addressing growing debates on population ageing and increasing participation of women in the labour market, this title analyses the welfare and labour market policies that affect working carers.
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Ginseng and Aspirin
Navigating the maze of modern American health care is rarely easy; those who enter it are confronted with a dizzying array of specialists, practitioners, and clinics from which to choose, and are forced to make decisions regarding drugs and treatments about which they may know very little. For immigrants, finding their way can be difficult—especially for those to whom Western medicine is itself unfamiliar.In this engaging, accessible, and detail-rich book, Zibin Guo narrates elderly Chinese immigrants' response to contemporary American medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes self-care and the medicinal value of foods and herbs; American doctors' responses to the ailments of their Chinese patients can seem impersonal and unnecessarily interventionist. Distrust, expense, and problems of communication and interpretation often frustrate both patient and practitioner.Guo paints a picture of a population that, despite its outward appearance of homogeneity, demonstrates a surprisingly wide variety of health-care knowledge, practice, and belief. Using case materials and interviews, he analyzes the blend of folk treatments and respect for Western science that coexist in the health care regimens of these elderly Chinese immigrants.
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