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

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.

Purpose– Improving older adults' preparedness for and response to natural disasters has become an important issue. Population ageing, together with concerns about increasing extreme weather-related events, has added further impetus to the need to reduce older adults' vulnerability to disasters. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the above issues.Design/methodology/approach– Social and environmental influences on community dwelling independent older adults have not been accounted for in models of hazard adjustment, which have invariably used quantitative research methods.Findings– To date much of the preparedness and response research has focused on organisational responses to preparedness, while perspectives from older adults have received less attention. Furthermore social and environmental influences on community dwelling independent older adults have not been accounted for in models of hazard adjustment.Originality/value– Extending research to include qualitative methodologies, which recognises older adults as active participants in research about themselves, would contribute to increasing understandings about influences on disaster preparedness and response; and inform social policies and prevention programmes.