Pub Date : 2018-04-25DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X18000417
Malene NØRSKOV BØDKER
ABSTRACT In the face of population ageing, Western health-care systems are currently demonstrating an immense interest in mobilising older people's potentials. With this agenda in mind, several countries have introduced reablement: a type of home care aimed at mobilising older people's potentials for independence by means of short-term training programmes. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Denmark's home care sector, this paper explores how elder-care professionals translate the abstract notion of ‘potentiality’ into practice. Theoretically, the paper draws on Annemarie Mol's term ‘logic of care’. I demonstrate that professionals draw on two co-existing logics of care: a logic of reablement encapsulating ideals of successful ageing and life-long development; and a logic of retirement, which in contrast allows people at the end of life to retreat and engage in enjoyable activities. Professionals manage to balance these logics in order to live up to policy obligations while at the same time complying with moral standards of good care. However, very little is achieved in terms of increased independence. I argue that by narrowly focusing on bodily and quantifiable potentials, the ‘potentiality paradigm’ holds the risk of deeming older people to lack potential. In conclusion, I therefore encourage a more inclusive approach to elder-care and ageing that recognises the complexities of ageing, including older people's potentials for retreat and leisure.
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Pub Date : 2018-02-01DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X17001271
D. Bielby
adequate or secure tenure underpins every decision, action and worry. For example, weighing up a Aus $. bus fare against a loaf of bread (p. ) demonstrates that the choices people have are really no choice at all when it comes to living a decent life. The book has ten chapters. The first two covering an introduction to housing tenure and an ageing society, the private rental market and the policy issues related to older Australians. The third introduces the capacity to pay for accommodation on the Age Pension. Chapter investigates shopping – a major activity for older Australians. Purchasing power is closely linked the ability to live a decent life. Chapter examines how financial limitations affect day-to-day living, such as paying for electricity to heat the home in winter. Chapter looks at social ties and leisure activities; and the impact of housing tenure and limited finances on health are covered in Chapter . Chapter returns to the private rental market and reveals the potential for eviction due to the pending sale of the property. With recent policy shifts, public housing tenants now worry that their home will be targeted for urban renewal and fear they will be forced to move from their established community. The theme is continued in Chapter by discussing the increasing residualisation of social housing and its implications for older tenants. Chapter concludes by asking where to from here? The discussion reviews the previous chapters and provides a final comparison between the three groups in the study: outright home-owners, renters in the private market and renters in public or social housing. The methodology is covered in the appendices. Endnotes, references and an index are also provided. For those who work in the community sector, particularly in housing or ageing advocacy services, the book provides few, if any, new revelations. It does, however, document this knowledge using the words and experiences of older Australians. The book gives voice to these experiences, brings to life the issues, and adds emphasis to the demands for policy change by housing and ageing advocacy groups.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X17001209
M. V. Kutzleben
{"title":"Polly Kaiser and Ruth Eley (eds), Life Story Work with People with Dementia. Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary People, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 2017, 277 pp., pbk £19.99, ISBN 13: 978 1 84905 505 5.","authors":"M. V. Kutzleben","doi":"10.1017/S0144686X17001209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X17001209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51364,"journal":{"name":"Ageing & Society","volume":"38 1","pages":"214-216"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0144686X17001209","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56841438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-01DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X16001574
Gemma M Carney
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Pub Date : 2017-03-23DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X17000022
Eleanor M. M. Davies, B. Heijden, John Stephenson
The changing retirement landscape calls on employers to develop practices that respond to individuals’ retirement needs. Line managers are a key stakeholder in managing retirement and this study focuses on how they respond to employee retirement scenarios. This empirical work examines manager openness to involvement in retirement, focusing on three sets of explanatory variables: manager psycho-social characteristics (experience of managing older workers, intention to work past 65), their decision-making environment (influence, discretion and decision-making support) and older employee situational factors (performance, ease of replacement, retirement affect and attitude to work). Data were collected from 129 managers in the United Kingdom's university sector using survey items and a factorial vignette design. The multi-level analysis found support for each category of variables in predicting manager openness to involvement in employee retirement. Managers with more experience of managing older workers were more likely to be open to involvement although managers’ own retirement intentions were not significant as a predictor. Decision-making environment variables were significant predictors of manager openness to involvement. The only older employee situational factor that was associated with manager openness to involvement was employee performance. Practically, organisations need to recognise the potential influence that managers have on employee retirement decisions and this study's findings show that managers may need training to help them understand their own role in supporting older employee retirement.
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Pub Date : 2016-11-02DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X16001148
B. I. Van der Heijden
ABSTRACT This study deals with the impact of relational demography upon occupational expertise ratings, and possible moderating effects of interpersonal work context factors. The results revealed support for a decrease in supervisor ratings of occupational expertise of their subordinates as an effect of directional age difference (status-incongruence: a situation wherein a supervisor is younger than his or her subordinate). Moreover, it appeared that transformational leadership style could not moderate this effect. Dyadic tenure appeared to strengthen the negative effect of status-incongruence, yet, only in the case of a longer duration of the relationship between employee and supervisor. Both theoretical and practical implications of these outcomes are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X15000562
D. V. D. Hoonaard
{"title":"Anna Tarrant and Jacqueline H. Watts (eds), Studies of Ageing Masculinities: Still in Their Infancy? Centre for Policy on Ageing, London, 2014, 92 pp., pbk £10.00, ISBN 13: 978 0 904139 23 5.","authors":"D. V. D. Hoonaard","doi":"10.1017/S0144686X15000562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X15000562","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51364,"journal":{"name":"Ageing & Society","volume":"35 1","pages":"1335-1336"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0144686X15000562","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56841165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-07-01DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X14000324
T. Moulaert
{"title":"Scott Davidson, Going Grey: The Mediation of Politics in an Ageing Society , Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, UK, 2012, 206 pp., hbk £60.00, ISBN 13: 9781409433927.","authors":"T. Moulaert","doi":"10.1017/S0144686X14000324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X14000324","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51364,"journal":{"name":"Ageing & Society","volume":"45 1","pages":"1091-1092"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85682941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-11-01DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X12000682
A. Tinker
{"title":"Jeanne Katz, Sheila Peace and Sue Spurr (eds), Adult Lives: A Life Course Perspective, The Policy Press, Bristol, UK, in association with The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, 2012, 496 pp., pbk £26.99, ISBN 13: 978 1 44730 043 4.","authors":"A. Tinker","doi":"10.1017/S0144686X12000682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X12000682","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51364,"journal":{"name":"Ageing & Society","volume":"32 1","pages":"1446-1447"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0144686X12000682","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56841102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X11000973
Feliciano Villar
This paper examines the contributions that generativity in older age may make to the concept of successful ageing. To this end, two perspectives on successful ageing are described: successful ageing as a set of clinical criteria, and successful ageing as the application of adaptive processes aimed at achieving efficient functioning. After showing the limitations of the first perspective, particularly from a developmental point of view, the paper argues that the adaptive version of successful ageing helps to putageingintoadevelopmentalframe,butneedstobecomplementedbyidentifying specific content and goals that guide these adaptive processes and establish new feasible gains for older people. Generativity in older age could play that role and providesaconceptual frameworkthatenrichestheconceptofsuccessfulageing,both by emphasising the social contextin which people age and by highlighting a personal growth component.
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