Negotiating Well-being
Older People's Narratives of Relationships and Relationality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901827 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lizzie Ward (0000-0002-4158-2030, University of Brighton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 293-305 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-03 |
| 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 | 10.1080/17496535.2014.932419 |
| OpenAlex | W2100729724 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article discusses well-being in old age by drawing on findings from participatory research carried out by older co-researchers exploring how older people learn to sustain their own and others’ well-being. It considers the way in which research based in older people's experience can inform ethical policy and practice capable of delivering well-being. It critiques individualized notions of well-being and provides a counter-perspective based in relational understandings of what it is to be human drawn from feminist care ethics. This offers a different way of understanding the significance of social relationships and networks to older people's well-being from that offered by a focus on ‘community’ which has emerged in the communitarian discourses of the UK Coalition government. It illustrates this with older people's accounts of well-being highlighting the ways in which relationships with people, places and spaces are negotiated with ageing. Finally it argues that this relational conceptualization of well-being embodies values and the ethical dimensions of responsibility based in lived experiences. This provides the basis for alternative values-based policies and practices which we need to distinguish from the instrumental expression of social relationships and ‘community’ within communitarian discourses
Conceptualization · Government (linguistics · Narrative · Negotiation · Older people · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Welfare and well-being
Ageing in urban neighbourhoods
Public Policy in the Community
Care in everyday life
Love’s Labor
Why Things Matter to People
Care Ethics
Crossing the Divide between Theory and Practice
Being well enough in old age
Ageing in urban environments
Re-spacing and re-placing gerontology
Communities of place and communities of interest? An exploration of their changing role in later life
I sort of pay back in my own little way’
Exploring the age-friendliness of purpose-built retirement communities
Justice Interruptus
The Emerging Neocommunitarianism
Wellbeing and Welfare
Disability and the Implications of the Wellbeing Agenda
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |