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Critical Gerontology for Social Workers /

This original collection explores how critical gerontology can make sense of old age inequalities to inform social work research, policy and practice. Engaging with key debates on age-related human rights, the conceptual focus addresses the current challenges and opportunities facing those who work...

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Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Series -- Critical Gerontology for Social Workers -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Social work and critical gerontology: why the former needs the latter -- Ageing in the midst of health inequalities -- Working with older people in the midst of populationageing -- Marrying social work values and critical gerontology -- When ageism and neoliberalism get in our way -- Outline of the chapters that follow -- References 
505 0 |a Part I Critical gerontology as guiding principles for social work with older people -- 2 The lifecourse and old age -- The lifecourse approach -- Old age as a social category -- Age-related issues -- Models of health and care -- Health inequalities and later life: the lifecourse approach -- Structural inequalities: a note about gender, race and age -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Human rights and older people -- Older people and the evolution of human rights -- The limitations of rights instruments -- Existing rights instruments and older people -- Substituting a rhetoric of rights 
505 0 |a The ongoing lobby for a convention on the rights of older people -- Enter the WHO campaign against ageism -- How biomedical views of ageing and older people affect their human rights -- Managerialism, social work and rights practice -- Old-age identities and older people's demands for their human rights -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Agency and autonomy -- The third age, individualisation and reflexivity -- Consumer culture and agency -- The fourth age -- Personhood and agency -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Poverty and late-life homelessness 
505 0 |a The development of social work and gerontological social work -- Critical approaches to structure, poverty and care -- Late-life homelessness: intersection of poverty and care -- Importance of a critical gerontological social work agenda -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Sexuality and rights in later life -- Sexual well-being and rights: key frameworks -- Ageism and ageist erotophobia -- Lifecourse perspectives on LGBQ ageing -- Queer perspectives on identity and ageing -- Heterosexuality and gender in older women and men -- Negotiating intimate relationships for trans older people -- Conclusion 
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