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Daring to grow old
— lessons in healthy ageing and empowerment | | Author(s) | Ann C Beckingham, Susan Watt |
| Journal title | BOLD, vol 9, no 3, May 1999 |
| Publisher | International Institute on Ageing (United Nations - Malta), May 1999 |
| Pages | pp 9-19 |
| Keywords | Good Health ; Rights [elderly] ; Ageing process ; Preventative medicine ; General practice ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The capacity to achieve and retain control over one's own life, to make decisions about one's own situation, and to exert power, is strongly correlated with being healthy. For older people, there is a real danger that professionals with good intentions will encroach on this control in the name of providing service. From a Canadian perspective, this paper considers issues of power, control, decision-making, and healthy ageing from the perspective of educating health care providers. Particular attention is paid to how health care providers see their role in defining older adults as being "at risk" when they refuse services or take risks which providers define as unacceptable. This issue of appropriate professional control is raised, and the literature on successful coping is used to argue for policies and practices which enhance personal autonomy and interdependence as effective vehicles for healthy ageing. Lessons for primary health care are applied to healthy ageing even in the face of diminishing capacities. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990716220 A |
| Classmark | CD: IKR: BG: LK2: L5: 7S |
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