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Dependency and old age: theoretical accounts and practical understandings
- Author:
- DANT Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 8(2), June 1988, pp.171-188.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The concept of dependency is involved in two strands of the literature on old age, and is used in each with a different effect. In the literature on 'structured dependency' the concept is used to describe and criticise a relationship between elderly people and the state that is determined by social policy. In the literature on 'dependency scales' the concept is used as a basis for categorising elderly people for research, planning and service purposed. More recent commentary on the role of the concept in relation to elderly people suggests that dependency needs to be understood in a fuller way if it is to be useful in understanding the situation of elderly people in contemporary society. This paper develops the idea that dependency refers to a form of relationship characterised by an unequal distribution of power.
The elderly mystique: constraints on the autonomy of the elderly with disabilities
- Author:
- COHEN Elias S.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, pp.24-31. Supplementary Issue., June 1988, pp.24-31. Supplementary Issue.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
To avoid paternalisation in services for elderly people lessons need to be learned from the women's movement, the independent living movement and normalisation programmes.
Medicalising the care of old people
- Author:
- SCRUTTON S.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 23.6.88, 1988, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reliance on medical treatment for the problems of old age, along with increasingly ageist attitudes in society, provides a challenge that social work needs to face.
Community resistance to planned housing for the elderly: ageism or general antipathy to group housing?
- Author:
- MANGUM Wiley P.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 28(3), June 1988, pp.325-329.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Reports on a survey of two suburban communities.