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| Promoting mental health and wellbeing amongst housebound older people | | Author(s) | Lesley Cotterill, Diane Taylor |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing, vol 2, no 3, September 2001 |
| Pages | pp 32-46 |
| Keywords | Housebound ; Well being ; Health [elderly] ; Preventative medicine ; Social policy ; Qualitative Studies ; England. |
| Annotation | In England, health promotion has an important role to play in delivering the aims of the new health and social care modernisation programme, as illustrated by two such strategies in recent policy documents. The first, providing information about health issues, is intended to empower people, promote independence and help them to become and stay healthy. Second, encouraging social participation, is intended to reduce social isolation and stress, build social capital, and promote mental health and well-being. This paper presents findings from a qualitative sociological study of an Ageing Well project for housebound older people, on what they valued about participating in the project, and how it enhanced their sense of well-being. For this group of people, "feeling happy" and maintaining a positive sense of well-being were transitory experiences involving a range of strategies to "manage" information. The lessons for health promotion from this study suggest that providing health-related information may conflict with, rather than complement, efforts to promote mental health by compromising the ways in which people in difficult circumstances construct their sense of well-being and strive to feel happy. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-011019211 A |
| Classmark | C6: D:F:5HH: CC: LK2: TM2: 3DP: 82 |
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