Health in the Context of Growing Old

Social Representations of Health

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4228977
AutoresUwe Flick (0000-0001-7357-7255, Alice-Salomon-Hochschule Berlin), Claudia Fischer (0000-0001-7574-8097, Alice-Salomon-Hochschule Berlin), Anke Neuber (0000-0003-1611-0055, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover), Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz (Medizinische Hochschule Hannover), Ulla Walter (0000-0002-0709-2206, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover)
Ano2003
Volume8
Fascículo5
Páginas539-556
Data de publicação2003-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/13591053030085006
PMID19177716
OpenAlexW2064782683
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas11

Senior citizens have become a major part of the clientele of general practitioners and home care nurses due to a major demographic transition in most western countries. How do the health concepts in professional practice reflect these trends? Research has largely investigated the health concepts of lay people. This study is focused on the representations of health in old age held by two groups of professionals- general practitioners and nurses-both working in home care with elderly people in two German cities. The results show how health professionals use an extended concept of health, which focuses on the life situation of the old person, on autonomy, self-determination or independence and on how the elderly manage disease and physical restrictions

Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Public health · Social determinants of health · Social environment · Social science · Sociology · Aging and Gerontology Research · Medicine · Psychology · History · Social Psychology