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Older Citizens and End-of-Life Care - Social Work Practice Strategies for Adults in Later Life (Paperback)
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Older Citizens and End-of-Life Care - Social Work Practice Strategies for Adults in Later Life (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
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Older people are, like younger people, citizens in the communities
of the nations in which they live. This book sees ageing as a life
journey that incorporates a process of citizening, in which people
build their identity as part of their family and community. But the
social experience of illness, frailty, disability and reaching the
end of life may de-citizen older people by devaluing the social
identity that comes from continuing social engagement. We
de-citizen older people by emphasizing dependence on services and
their cost to public expenditure instead of valuing the
interdependence of participation and mutual respect. This book
argues that older people retain full citizenship for the whole of
their lives, up to the moment of death; but what does this mean for
health and social care? In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Payne
argues that social work with older people must build re-citizening
practice strategies to value both the common and the special
aspects of the citizenship of older people. Current models of
social care and social work create dependency, rather than relying
on values of participative interdependence. The failure to
recognize the end of life as a crucial element in all social care
and social work for older people means that the lessons learned in
providing palliative and end-of-life care in healthcare have not
been transferred to social care, and the priorities of end-of-life
care have not been adequately encompassed in social work with older
people.
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