Training the ageing bodies
New knowledge paradigms and professional practices in elderly care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2250259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Annette Kamp (0000-0002-5442-2044, Department of People and Technology Roskilde University Roskilde Denmark, corresponding author), Betina Dybbroe (0000-0003-2758-0263, Department of People and Technology Roskilde University Roskilde Denmark) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1730-1746 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.13675 |
| PMID | 37291653 |
| OpenAlex | W4379967308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 42 |
In the Scandinavian countries, reablement has become a principle permeating all parts of elderly care, hence potentially transforming care and care work. This article explores the advent of new knowledge paradigms and practices of physiotherapists and occupational therapists transforming reabling care in particular ways, leading to what we term a logic of training emerging in the field. These professional groups have obtained a dominant position as reablement specialists in Norway and Denmark, where our extensive fieldwork was performed as part of a 3-year research project. Taking inspiration from Annemarie Mol's concept of logic, we study how professional practices are organised and infused with specific values, meanings and ideals in situated contexts. We hence explore the logic of training, its abstracted image of the body and rational goal-oriented model for progress measurement and its ramifications when addressing ageing bodies in a complex field marked by the unpredictabilities of the social and lived bodies, administrative rules and temporalities and the quest for empowering and involving clients. The paper concludes by pointing at new contradictions arising when practicing reabling care and particularly points out the tensions arising in care relations, where ambitions on empowering and disciplining the client and the elderly body may collide
Ageing · Geography · Medical education · Training (meteorology · Aging and Gerontology Research · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Gerontology
Creative Teamwork
The Logic of Care
Public Policy and the Construction of Old Age in Europe
The Rationality of Caring
Ethnography in/of the World System
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Feeling Gender
Bathing - the Body and Community Care
A century-long struggle towards professionalism. Key factors in the growth of the physiotherapists’ role in the United States, from subordinated practitioners to autonomous professionals
Performative identity regulation in rehabilitative home care work
Framing of intimate care in home care services
From Carers to Trainers
Gender Stereotypes and the Reshaping of Stigma in Rehabilitative Eldercare
What constitutes ‘good care’ and ‘good carers’? The normative implications of introducing reablement in Danish home care
If they’re helping me then how can I be independent?’ The perceptions and experience of users of home-care re-ablement services
Characteristics of occupational therapy and physiotherapy within the context of reablement in Swedish municipalities
Assessing the impact of a restorative home care service in New Zealand
Potentiality made workable – exploring logics of care in reablement for older people
Busy Bodies
Goals for living with a chronic condition
The "unknown territory" of goal-setting
Permission to participate?' A qualitative study of participation in patients from differing socio-economic backgrounds
A new professionalism? Challenges and opportunities
Ageing with telecare
Rehabilitative bodywork
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |