Bodies at Disposal in Home Care Settings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2250488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helle Cathrine Hansen (0000-0002-8213-0233, Norwegian Social Research Oslo Metropolitan University Oslo Norway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | e70028-e70028 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-01 |
| 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 | 10.1111/1467-9566.70028 |
| PMID | 40172250 |
| OpenAlex | W4409109105 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 36 |
Drawing on perspectives of care work as a collaborative and negotiated practice, this paper aims to explore how older service users actively contribute to care work and situations of care in the reablement policy context of homecare. The study analyses how service users in Danish and Norwegian municipal homecare settings place their bodies at disposal and how care workers' responses to service users' embodied contributions shape care practice and situations of care. Four ways of placing service users' bodies at disposal were identified: proactively, dependently, reluctantly and instructively. Care workers' capacity to attentively respond to service users' physical and emotional needs and their flexibility and adaptiveness in dealing with service users placing their bodies at disposal in various ways, seem to be key for care work as a collaborative practice that promotes dignity in care. The study applies affective ethnography as a methodological and analytical approach
Business · Care work · Context (archaeology · Dignity · Embodied cognition · Ethnography · Flexibility (engineering · Management · Norwegian · Political science · Public relations · Service (business · Sociology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Marketing · Medicine · Nursing · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
The Body in Health and Social Care
The Logic of Care
Emotional Labour in Health Care
The Rationality of Caring
Care in Practice
Unravelling the dichotomisation of care and reablement
Making sense of reablement within different institutional contexts. Collaborative service ideals in Norwegian and Danish home care
Care parading as service
The body, gender, and age
Potentiality made workable – exploring logics of care in reablement for older people
Dignity equals distance? Pursuing dignity in care for older adults
Professional Boundaries
Carework as a form of bodywork
Moving Between Nuisance, Secrets, and Splinters as Data
The Social Relations of body Work
Managing the body work of home care
Conceptualising body work in health and social care
Training the ageing bodies
Rehabilitative bodywork
Dementia Care Work in Singapore
The Body in Social Policy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |