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Spotting good ageing: using welfare theory of health to frame the agency of older adults with immigrant backgrounds to attain good ageing

Johansson, Carl; Morell, Ildiko Asztalos; Lindberg, Daniel; Gustafsson, Lena-Karin

Sammanfattning

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.

Nyckelord

Older adults; good ageing; resources; holism; health

Publicerad i

Nordic Social Work Research
2023, Volym: 13, nummer: 1, sidor: 21-35

    Associerade SLU-program

    SLU Future One Health

    Globala målen

    SDG3 God hälsa och välbefinnande
    SDG11 Hållbara städer och samhällen
    SDG16 Fredliga och inkluderande samhällen

    UKÄ forskningsämne

    Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi

    Publikationens identifierare

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2156857X.2021.1902377

    Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/115091