Pub Date : 2019-12-11DOI: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.19453
L. Braverman
Although researchers have conducted extensive studies of the psychosocial impacts of prostate cancer and its treatment on men’s bodies, masculinity and sexuality, little attention has been devoted to the intersection of gender and age in the healthcare experience of this illness. Based on data collected through direct observation in four French public hospitals, and 65 semi-directive interviews with prostate cancer patients, their relatives and healthcare professionals, this article aims to examine how age and gender shape care pathways. We argue that combining the concept of hegemonic masculinity with an intersectional approach may provide an adequate theoretical framework for analysing the plurality of men’s prostate cancer healthcare experience. Four steps of the patient care process are successively analysed to assess how the patient experience of illness may be influenced by power relations that interact with individual characteristics: screening, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care.
{"title":"The healthcare experience of prostate cancer patients: exploring the intersection of age and gender","authors":"L. Braverman","doi":"10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.19453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.19453","url":null,"abstract":"Although researchers have conducted extensive studies of the psychosocial impacts of prostate cancer and its treatment on men’s bodies, masculinity and sexuality, little attention has been devoted to the intersection of gender and age in the healthcare experience of this illness. Based on data collected through direct observation in four French public hospitals, and 65 semi-directive interviews with prostate cancer patients, their relatives and healthcare professionals, this article aims to examine how age and gender shape care pathways. We argue that combining the concept of hegemonic masculinity with an intersectional approach may provide an adequate theoretical framework for analysing the plurality of men’s prostate cancer healthcare experience. Four steps of the patient care process are successively analysed to assess how the patient experience of illness may be influenced by power relations that interact with individual characteristics: screening, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care.","PeriodicalId":39906,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ageing and Later Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44972586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-06DOI: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.13_2b
M. Fine
No abstract available
没有摘要
{"title":"Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard (2016). Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age. Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN 978-1-4473-1906-1 (Paperback)","authors":"M. Fine","doi":"10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.13_2b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.13_2b","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available","PeriodicalId":39906,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ageing and Later Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45273538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-06DOI: 10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.18410
Vincent Horn, C. Schweppe, A. Böcker, María Bruquetas-Callejo
Private households in ageing societies increasingly employ live-in migrant carers (LIMCs) to care for relatives in need of 24/7 care and supervision. Whilst LIMC arrangements are a common practice in Germany, they are only recently emerging in the Netherlands. Taking this development as a starting point, this study uses the countries’ different long-term care (LTC) regimes as the analytical framework to explore and compare the motivations and justifications of German and Dutch family carers who opt for an LIMC arrangment. Findings show that Dutch and German LTC regimes impact differently the decision-making processes of families, as well as on patterns of justification, through a combination of policies and social norms and their related expectations towards care and care work in old age.
{"title":"Live-in migrant care worker arrangements in Germany and the Netherlands: motivations and justifications in family decision-making","authors":"Vincent Horn, C. Schweppe, A. Böcker, María Bruquetas-Callejo","doi":"10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.18410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.18410","url":null,"abstract":"Private households in ageing societies increasingly employ live-in migrant carers (LIMCs) to care for relatives in need of 24/7 care and supervision. Whilst LIMC arrangements are a common practice in Germany, they are only recently emerging in the Netherlands. Taking this development as a starting point, this study uses the countries’ different long-term care (LTC) regimes as the analytical framework to explore and compare the motivations and justifications of German and Dutch family carers who opt for an LIMC arrangment. Findings show that Dutch and German LTC regimes impact differently the decision-making processes of families, as well as on patterns of justification, through a combination of policies and social norms and their related expectations towards care and care work in old age.","PeriodicalId":39906,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ageing and Later Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45916382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-06DOI: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.18-181227
Vincent Horn, C. Schweppe
The world’s population is ageing. Particularly industrialised countries in Europe and elsewhere are experiencing rapid growth in the number and proportion of older people in their societies. The economic and sociocultural challenges that population ageing poses to labour markets, welfare states and families in Europe have been dealt with extensively (e.g. Harper 2016). An area in which different challenges conflate and reinforce each other is that of long-term care (LTC) in old age. “LTC in old age” refers to all kinds of formal and informal care and support services provided to older people on a regular basis. LTC in old age is provided in different settings (at home, in day-care and short-stay services or in LTC facilities) by a network of care providers, including the family, public services, market-based and third sector organisations. With more people living longer, the demand for LTC services in old age is projected to rise steadily across European countries, raising concerns about the fiscal sustainability of LTC systems (Greve 2017). Other societal changes, such as the increased participation of women in the labour market, put additional pressure on policymakers to find affordable solutions for the delivery of good quality LTC services tailored to the diverse needs of older people. European countries are responding to the growing need for LTC against the backdrop of very different traditions and institutional contexts.
{"title":"Transnational mobilities of care in old age","authors":"Vincent Horn, C. Schweppe","doi":"10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.18-181227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.18-181227","url":null,"abstract":"The world’s population is ageing. Particularly industrialised countries in Europe and elsewhere are experiencing rapid growth in the number and proportion of older people in their societies. The economic and sociocultural challenges that population ageing poses to labour markets, welfare states and families in Europe have been dealt with extensively (e.g. Harper 2016). An area in which different challenges conflate and reinforce each other is that of long-term care (LTC) in old age. “LTC in old age” refers to all kinds of formal and informal care and support services provided to older people on a regular basis. LTC in old age is provided in different settings (at home, in day-care and short-stay services or in LTC facilities) by a network of care providers, including the family, public services, market-based and third sector organisations. With more people living longer, the demand for LTC services in old age is projected to rise steadily across European countries, raising concerns about the fiscal sustainability of LTC systems (Greve 2017). Other societal changes, such as the increased participation of women in the labour market, put additional pressure on policymakers to find affordable solutions for the delivery of good quality LTC services tailored to the diverse needs of older people. European countries are responding to the growing need for LTC against the backdrop of very different traditions and institutional contexts.","PeriodicalId":39906,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ageing and Later Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47227206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-06DOI: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.19467
Peter Derkx, Pien Bos, H. Laceulle, Anja Machielse
In this article, we introduce a general theory about meaning in life developed by our first author, and apply it to the context of ageing. The seven components of meaning distinguished by this theory – purpose, moral worth, selfworth, control, coherence, excitement and connectedness – are discussed in turn. After presenting the theory, we confront the seven components with extensive life narratives of two older men – in a first empirical qualitative exploration of how meaning dimensions appear in the life experiences of older people. This dialogue between theory and narrative is used to provide concretisation and clarification of the seven components, thereby enhancing the understanding of the theory, while at the same time suggesting possible refinements and directions for future exploration of meaning in life in the context of ageing.
{"title":"Meaning in life and the experience of older people","authors":"Peter Derkx, Pien Bos, H. Laceulle, Anja Machielse","doi":"10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.19467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.19467","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we introduce a general theory about meaning in life developed by our first author, and apply it to the context of ageing. The seven components of meaning distinguished by this theory – purpose, moral worth, selfworth, control, coherence, excitement and connectedness – are discussed in turn. After presenting the theory, we confront the seven components with extensive life narratives of two older men – in a first empirical qualitative exploration of how meaning dimensions appear in the life experiences of older people. This dialogue between theory and narrative is used to provide concretisation and clarification of the seven components, thereby enhancing the understanding of the theory, while at the same time suggesting possible refinements and directions for future exploration of meaning in life in the context of ageing.","PeriodicalId":39906,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ageing and Later Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41753561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-06DOI: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.13_2c
J. Weil
No abstract available.
没有摘要。
{"title":"Stephen Katz (ed.) (2018). Ageing in Everyday Life. Materialities and Embodiments. Bristol: Policy Press, 208 pp. ISBN 978-1447335917 (hardback)","authors":"J. Weil","doi":"10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.13_2c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.13_2c","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":39906,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ageing and Later Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45554417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-06DOI: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.2019132
Malte Völk
{"title":"Book review: Mark Schweda, Larissa Pfaller, Kai Brauer, Frank Adloff & Silke Schicktanz (eds.) (2017): Planning later life. Bioethics and public health in ageing societies","authors":"Malte Völk","doi":"10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.2019132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.2019132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39906,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ageing and Later Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46735152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-06DOI: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.18403
Karin van Holten, H. Kaspar, Eva Soom-Ammann
This paper examines the notion of familiarity in live-in elder care settings and how it is challenged, changed, and reestablished. Live-in care is a strategy to prevent disruptions and preserve familiarity in enabling older persons in need of extensive care to stay at home – and thus, to enable ageing in place. This paper problematizes this strategy based on interviews with family caregivers who engaged a migrant live-in care worker in Switzerland. The key argument is that live-in care arrangements constitute an all-embracing form of inserting formal, paid-for care service delivery into the informal, private, intimate space of home. The live-in care arrangement not only challenges the familiarity of the home space, but also seems to ask for strategies of adaptation to familiarize the unfamiliar. Therefore, the introduction of live-in care is consequential for all involved parties and requires largely underestimated efforts to adapt to the new home space.
{"title":"Fragile familiarity in transnational home care arrangements for older people","authors":"Karin van Holten, H. Kaspar, Eva Soom-Ammann","doi":"10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.18403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.18403","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the notion of familiarity in live-in elder care settings and how it is challenged, changed, and reestablished. Live-in care is a strategy to prevent disruptions and preserve familiarity in enabling older persons in need of extensive care to stay at home – and thus, to enable ageing in place. This paper problematizes this strategy based on interviews with family caregivers who engaged a migrant live-in care worker in Switzerland. The key argument is that live-in care arrangements constitute an all-embracing form of inserting formal, paid-for care service delivery into the informal, private, intimate space of home. The live-in care arrangement not only challenges the familiarity of the home space, but also seems to ask for strategies of adaptation to familiarize the unfamiliar. Therefore, the introduction of live-in care is consequential for all involved parties and requires largely underestimated efforts to adapt to the new home space.","PeriodicalId":39906,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ageing and Later Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47808125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-06DOI: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.13_2a
Malte Völk
No abstract available.
没有可用的摘要。
{"title":"Mark Schweda, Larissa Pfaller, Kai Brauer, Frank Adloff and Silke Schicktanz (eds.) (2017). Planning Later Life. Bioethics and Public Health in Ageing Societies. Abingdon/ New York: Taylor & Francis [Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy], 263 pp","authors":"Malte Völk","doi":"10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.13_2a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.13_2a","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":39906,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ageing and Later Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45520727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-06DOI: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.18421
Désirée Bender, C. Schweppe
This article looks at old age care facilities abroad that target people who live in Germany. Such facilities have been established in Southeast Asia (mainly Thailand) and in Eastern Europe (mainly Poland). Given that they challenge central guiding orientations for old age care in Germany, considerable criticisms are levelled at them, and their use is viewed with distinct scepticism. Nevertheless, some of these facilities succeed in sustaining considerable demand from Germany over quite a few years. In this article, we therefore ask what strategies and arguments they use to make them a legitimate option for people in Germany and to be established on the German market. Based on two case studies of an old age facility in Thailandand Poland, we will show how they skilfully position themselves as “better” options for residential care even though their strategies considerably vary and result in very different models of old age care. Drawing on neo-institutional organisation theories, we will show how these strategies are essential for the facilities’ emergence as new players in the care market for older people from Germany.
{"title":"Care facilities for Germans in Thailand and Poland: making old age care abroad legitimate","authors":"Désirée Bender, C. Schweppe","doi":"10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.18421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.18421","url":null,"abstract":"This article looks at old age care facilities abroad that target people who live in Germany. Such facilities have been established in Southeast Asia (mainly Thailand) and in Eastern Europe (mainly Poland). Given that they challenge central guiding orientations for old age care in Germany, considerable criticisms are levelled at them, and their use is viewed with distinct scepticism. Nevertheless, some of these facilities succeed in sustaining considerable demand from Germany over quite a few years. In this article, we therefore ask what strategies and arguments they use to make them a legitimate option for people in Germany and to be established on the German market. Based on two case studies of an old age facility in Thailandand Poland, we will show how they skilfully position themselves as “better” options for residential care even though their strategies considerably vary and result in very different models of old age care. Drawing on neo-institutional organisation theories, we will show how these strategies are essential for the facilities’ emergence as new players in the care market for older people from Germany.","PeriodicalId":39906,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ageing and Later Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46011932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：