Asztalos Morell, Ildikó
- Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
- Mälardalens Högskola
Forskningsartikel2023Vetenskapligt granskadÖppen tillgång
Johansson, Carl; Morell, Ildiko Asztalos; Lindberg, Daniel; Gustafsson, Lena-Karin
Care providers for older immigrants in Sweden find themselves in a paradox. Individuals and associations call for culturally sensitive elderly care. However, implementing this comes at the risk of over-culturizing needs and behaviours, drawing a negative picture of 'the problem of immigrants' that needs to be solved with special interventions. To find a balance in this paradox, we applied the welfare theory of health to grasp a new understanding of the phenomena and draw a holistic picture of a person's needs and resources available to achieve good ageing, reaching beyond the cultural paradox. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with older adults with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden. The interviews were analysed using content analysis. Combining welfare theory of health with immaterial capital theories offered a holistic theoretical approach to good ageing. This took its departure from the agency of older adults, mitigating the gap between their vital life goals and available resources to reach these goals. Although informants wanted caring interventions from close family, we identified distinct responses to mitigate the diminished trust older adults had in the capability of welfare institutions to provide adequate elderly care.
Older adults; good ageing; resources; holism; health
Nordic Social Work Research
2023, Volym: 13, nummer: 1, sidor: 21-35
SLU Future One Health
SDG3 God hälsa och välbefinnande
SDG11 Hållbara städer och samhällen
SDG16 Fredliga och inkluderande samhällen
Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2156857X.2021.1902377
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/115091