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| Preserving dignity in later life | | Author(s) | Jose Manuel Sao Jose |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 35, no 3, September 2016 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, September 2016 |
| Pages | pp 332-347 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/cjg |
| Keywords | Living in the community ; Health services ; Community care ; Activities of older people ; Rights [elderly] ; Self esteem ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | This article examines how older people who receive social care in the community experience loss of dignity and how they preserve their dignity. Qualitative research revealed that loss of dignity is a major concern for these people and that they preserve their dignity differently, ranging from actively engaging with life to detaching themselves from life. It is argued that in later life, preserving dignity while receiving social care differs from preserving dignity in the context of health care, especially health care provided in institutional settings. Furthermore, preserving dignity in later life, while receiving social care, is a complex process, depending not only on performing activities and individual action and responsibility, but also on other actions, some of them involving a certain inactivity/passivity, and interactions with others, especially caregivers. This article offers some insights to developing better policies and care practices for promoting dignity in the context of community-based social care. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170224223 A |
| Classmark | K4: L: PA: G: IKR: DPA: TM2 |
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