Ageing and the crisis in health and social care global and national perspectives - Simmonds, Bethany ca. 20./21. Jh (Policy Press, 2022)
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Front Cover -- Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care: Global and National Perspectives -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Series information -- 1 Introduction -- Contextualising care -- Setting the scene -- Key takeaways -- Outline of the book -- 2 Discourse, capital, intersectionality and precarity -- Introduction -- Neoliberal health and social care policy discourse: a Foucauldian analysis -- Governmentality and biopolitics -- Biomedical theorisation of ageing -- Social-gerontological theories of ageing -- Successful/active ageing theory
Bourdieusian theory applied to ageing -- Intersections of age, gender, disability and ethnicity -- Theorising precarity and ageing -- Conclusion -- 3 Globalisation, neoliberalism and welfare state models: a comparative analysis -- Introduction -- Globalisation and neoliberalism -- The origins of neoliberalism -- Welfare state models and their political underpinnings -- The UK welfare state system: a neoliberal/Anglo-Saxon archetype -- Competition, 'choice' and consumerism -- The Swedish welfare state: a social-democratic/Scandinavian archetype -- The Swedish health and social care system
The German welfare state: a corporatist/Continental European archetype -- The German health and social care system -- Conclusion -- 4 Failing health and social care in the UK: austerity, neoliberal ideology and precarity -- Introduction -- Austerity policies -- The Health and Social Care Act 2012 -- The Care Act 2014 -- Impact of austerity and neoliberal reform on service provision -- Failure of residential adult social care organisations -- The failure of Southern Cross -- Four Seasons -- Changes to the domiciliary ('home care') sector -- Precarious adult social care workers
Precarious health care workers -- The 'dementia tax' and the 2017 election -- Brexit and Boris -- Conclusion -- 5 Public health, emergency settings and end of life care -- Introduction -- Case Study 1: Preventing decline -- active ageing and public health -- Responses to images of active older people -- Importance of representations of ageing in public health information -- Case Study 2: older people falling and being attended to by paramedics -- Precarity of older people in emergency care -- Older people's choice and sense of being a burden -- Signposting in a fractured system