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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...
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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