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| Transforming practice with older people through an ethic of care | | Author(s) | Lizzie Ward, Marian Barnes |
| Journal title | British Journal of Social Work, vol 46, no 4, June 2016 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, June 2016 |
| Pages | pp 906-922 |
| Source | http://www.bjsw.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Social work ; Social ethics ; Older people ; Participation ; Communication ; Social workers ; Research ; Methodology. |
| Annotation | This article explores the relevance of deliberative practices framed by feminist care ethics to social work practice with older people. It draws on two connected projects which brought together older people with practitioners and academics. The first was a participatory research project, in which the significance of care to well-being in old age emerged. The second was a knowledge exchange project, which generated learning resources for social care practice based on the research findings of the first project. The authors analyse selected transcripts of recordings from meetings of both projects, to consider the ways that discussions about lived experiences and everyday lives demonstrate care through this dialogue. Using this analysis, the authors propose that care ethics can be useful in transforming relationships between older people and those working with them through the creation of hybrid spaces in which 'care-full deliberation' can happen. It is argued that such reflective spaces can enable transformative dialogue about care and its importance to older people; can offer a counterbalance to the procedurally driven environments in which much social work practice takes place; and can support practice more attuned to older people's circumstances and concerns. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170922200 A |
| Classmark | IG: TQ: B: TMB: U: QR: 3A: 3D |
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