Ethical Practice in the Care of an Elder
A Daughter’s Blog
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline Bath (Liverpool John Moores University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 307-319 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17496535.2017.1288264 |
| OpenAlex | W2587189472 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 23 |
This paper examines extracts from a daughter’s blog about her father’s time in a care home in the north of England from June 2015 until his death in January 2016. Through these extracts, the author of the paper, who is also the daughter of the title, provokes key ethical issues concerning the identity, agency and voice of an elder in the context of residential care. The wider, rapidly deteriorating, political and economic climate for the care of older people is briefly discussed and the paper makes reference to a feminist ethics of care, in order to both critique and celebrate women’s central place in caring for elders. The paper explores how the ethnographic process of writing about care for another can be considered a route to ethical care practice and it suggests that this blog is part of an autoethnographic analytic tradition [Anderson 2006. “Analytic Autoethnography.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35 (4): 373–395]. Finally, the paper asks questions about the ethics of blogging about and on behalf of an elder that, in this case, played a significant role in bringing not only the daughter-author but also other family members closer to the life of their father, grandfather and great-grandfather
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Autoethnography · Context (archaeology · Daughter · Ethics of care · Ethnography · Identity (music · Media studies · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Healthcare innovation and challenges · History · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Starting at Home
Citizenship and the Ethics of Care
The Individual in Social Care
Ethics in Qualitative Research
Research Ethics and the Moral Enterprise of Ethnography
Creating Caring Institutions
Seeking exemptions from nursing home routines
Memories, identity and homeliness
A Caring Profession? The Ethics of Care and Social Work with Older People
Capacity Building and the Reconception of Political Participation
Transforming Practice with Older People through an Ethic of Care
Confession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research
The Ethic of Care for the Self as a Practice of Freedom
Asylums
Negotiating Boundaries and Roles
Analytic Autoethnography
Homely Residential Care
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |