Suchergebnisse

chapter 1 Healthy ageing -- chapter 2 Capabilities -- chapter 3 Physical functioning -- chapter 4 Security -- chapter 5 Contribution -- chapter 6 Social connections -- chapter 7 Enjoyment -- chapter 8 Autonomy -- chapter 9 Research utilising the Capability Approach.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Series editor preface -- 1 Healthy ageing -- Ageing population -- Successful ageing -- Healthism and denial of death -- Ageism -- Oppressive ideals -- Individual responsibility -- Can 'successful ageing' be saved? -- Methodological issues -- Conceptual framework -- Alternative constructions of health -- Quality of life -- New definitions of healthy ageing -- Conclusion -- 2 Capabilities -- A capabilities approach to healthy ageing -- Functionings -- Capabilities -- Values -- Justice and inequality -- Capability and well-being -- Capability rather than successful ageing -- Social rather than individual responsibility -- Health and ageing bodies rather than healthism and denial of death -- Freedom rather than oppression -- Critiques of the Capability Approach -- Capability and theories of ageing -- Capability and social and critical theories -- Health as capabilities -- 3 Physical functioning -- Physical functioning is valued -- The disability paradox -- Disabling social environments -- Supportive housing -- Designing for care -- Housing design -- Universal design -- Age-friendly communities -- Conclusion -- 4 Security -- Understanding security -- Demographic ageing and the pension crisis -- Security of economic resources -- Seeking security in later life -- Secure housing -- Secure communities -- Health and health care -- Social relationships -- Future security -- Capability to experience security -- Conclusion -- 5 Contribution -- Valued contributions -- Volunteering -- Social participation -- Reciprocity -- Exclusion from contribution -- Supporting the capability to contribute -- Discourses of contribution -- Alternative discourses of contribution -- Conclusion -- 6 Social connections -- Social connections and well-being -- Social network types -- Valued social relationships

This study represents the experiences of informal carers of people with dementia concerning periods of transition into formal care. Retrospective interviews with 18 carers identified the key narratives: 'This is why I had to', 'They said I need to' and 'It was a last resort'. These indicate a sense of carers' responsibility in decision making and the undesirable assumptions around the move. However, the narrative of 'I made the right decision' was common after transition. Findings represent the nuanced carer experience around transitions, providing insight into the experiences of families living with dementia and informing future care planning.

In this article, we use the capability approach and Nussbaum's list of essential capabilities to understand the experiences of people providing (informal) care for older people. Nussbaum's ten essential capabilities were used as a template to analyse contributions to an online forum created for the research. The carers' posts indicated they valued these capabilities, though, in some instances, struggled to achieve them in the context of providing care. The capability approach provided a useful framework to move beyond caring as beneficial or burdensome, to view care as valued and as influencing other capabilities among carers for older people.

Informal care evolves from an existing relationship with the care recipient. This study aims to understand the relational nature of such care. Six participants caring for a spouse or parent chose their own methods of data collection, including keeping a journal, telephone interviews or face-to-face interviews. Participants drew on personal narratives to reveal different identities, which included a guardian, a partner, a coper, and a campaigner on behalf of the person receiving care. These findings demonstrate how providing good care is part of each carer's relational identity. Acknowledging the relational nature of care will enable better support for carers.

Despite the poor outcomes of early childbearing increasingly found to be equivocal, there remains a persistent pathologising of teen parenting, which structures government response. By applying a Foucauldian analysis to the recently introduced Young Parent Payment, this article examines the political rationalities that shape government responses and welfare assistance for young parents in Aotearoa/New Zealand. A biopolitical concern for the good economic citizen and right parent is found to inform the social investment approach, and exclude those who do not conform. Discourses about being Māori, young, a parent and needing financial assistance frame young Māori parents as at risk of long-term welfare-dependency and a threat to their own children. Welfare assistance is demonstrated to be a disciplinary practice to punish young Māori mother beneficiaries for deviating from the preferred normative life-course trajectory.

Sleep has been recognised as compromised in dementia care. This study aims to represent the experiences and needs of informal carers via sleep-related accounts. Retrospective interviews were conducted with 20 carers concerning sleep changes across the trajectory of dementia care. Key interactive narratives were around: 'sleep as my sacrifice'; tensions between identities of being a 'sleeper' versus 'guardian'; and 'sleep as a luxury'. Maintaining healthy sleep and preferable sleep practices is challenging while balancing the responsibilities of dementia-related care. Acknowledging sleep as a sociological practice enables a greater understanding of carers' nuanced experience and support needs.