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Ulla Melin Emilsson

Ulla Melin Emilsson

Professor i Socialt arbete Psykolog, socionom

Ulla Melin Emilsson

Independence as a stigmatizing value for older people considering relocation to a residential home

Författare

  • Maria Söderberg
  • Agneta Ståhl
  • Ulla Melin Emilsson

Summary, in English

Based on older people’s perspective, the aim of this article is to reveal how the culture of independence influences the decision-making process preceding relocation to a residential home. Since there is a predominant ideology of ageing in place in Sweden like in many other welfare states, the focus is on how a continued life in ordinary housing is justified versus how relocation to a residential home is excused. 21 older people have been included in open semi-structured interviews and in follow-up contacts. The findings show that the value of independence, originally intended to protect the position of older people, in practice lead to stigmatizing processes. In order to bridge the gap between values and declining capacities; expectations and actions, the older people develop individual-oriented, family-oriented, and public-oriented justifications and excuses, so called ‘accounts’.

Avdelning/ar

  • Socialhögskolan
  • Trafik och väg

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

391-406

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

European Journal of Social Work

Volym

16

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

  • Social Work

Nyckelord

  • older people
  • relocation
  • residential home
  • independence
  • stigma

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1369-1457