Bethany Simmonds (Aberystwyth University)

Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care

Global and National Perspectives

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Produktbeschreibung

Current and future provision of health and social care for older people is explored in this timely study. It draws on examples from Germany, Sweden and the UK to measure the impact of trends including neoliberalisation and marketisation and it considers new solutions to contemporary challenges in a complex care system.

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Produktdetails

• Ageing in a Global Context
• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781447348597
• ISBN-10: 1447348591
• Artikelnr.: 59916187

Autorenporträt

Bethany Simmonds is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth and has research expertise in health, wellbeing and ageing; intersecting with gendered, classed, ethnic and 'dis'abled identities.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Theory Chapter: Ageing Discourse, Capital,
Intersectionality and Precarity 3. Globalisation, Neoliberalism and Welfare
State Models: A Comparative Analysis 4. Failing Health and Social Care in
the UK: Austerity, Neoliberal Ideology and Precarity 5. Public Health and
Emergency Settings: Information and Health Choice in Later Life 6. Getting
Stuck in the Hospital and End of Life Care: Advocating for Vulnerable and
Dying People 7. Challenges and Solutions: Health and Social Care in a
COVID-19, Brexit Nexus 8. Innovative Solutions and Cultural Change