Aim Personalised care approaches aim to ensure that care is tailored to the person and that they have choice and control where it is appropriate. Incorporating these approaches throughout the design of services for health and care will improve outcomes and experiences for people. This chapter describes the six components of the comprehensive model for personalised care, how to apply them, and how they can help improve outcomes for people. What is personalised care? Personalised care aims to provide people with the power, and the right conditions, to
21 TWO Democratic caring and global care responsibilities Joan Tronto While feminist scholars long ago realised that care, and caring work, go beyond the household and are deeply implicated in national policies, the next great challenge is to transcend the national framework for care and to think about global responsibilities for care. That different states cope with the contemporary challenges of caring differently is obvious; indeed, a survey of these policies finds them to be ‘worlds apart’ (Razavi and Staab, 2012). But the concerns of care also exceed
Introduction This article contributes to the ongoing debate on the political dimension of care ethics. It contributes to this line of scholarship by juxtaposing the ethics of care with the concept of activism. Care is activist when acts of care produce acts of citizenship ( Isin, 2008 ). These acts constitute a rupture in the dominant ways of being responsible for one another in a society, which routinely make certain individuals and social groups vulnerable and marginalised. These are practices of care towards groups who are not recognised as deserving of
111 EIGHT Care without limits In the previous two chapters we addressed the nature of care, conceptualised variously as a labour of love, a contractual relationship, a professional practice or as a moral and material imperative. While we have represented the person being cared for as already old, frail and potentially abject, we have recognised that the degree of any person’s ‘frailure’ can be magnified or minimised by the narratives and practices of care within which their frailty is embedded. While pervasively present within any care relationship, the
private self and the changing values of privacy in postmodernity ( Lyon et al, 2012 ). The general use of surveillance technology in public spaces has now extended into institutionalised health and social care ( Powell and Biggs, 2000 ; Macnish, 2016 ). Applications include deterring crime and securing convictions in hospitals ( Stolovy et al, 2015 ), investigating critical incidents ( SCIE, 2014 ), and nursing observations of service users considered at risk to themselves or others ( Warr et al, 2005 ). Although closed-circuit television (CCTV) is perhaps the best
73 SIX The moral imperative of care We began this book by outlining our formulation of the fourth age as the cultural reconfiguration of all those aspects of old age that are most associated with fear and disgust. Such a social imaginary, we argued, draws on past and present representations of age as frailty, abjection and loss. The feared loss of agency, identity and independence that constitutes a pervasive element of this social imaginary is now centred on age-associated mental decline linked to ‘Alzheimer’s disease’ (Cutler, 2015). To provide a fuller
Introduction Global life expectancy is increasing, with people born in 2016 now expected to live, on average, until they are 72 years old ( World Health Organisation (2020a) . Alongside increasing longevity are a wide range of long-term and debilitating conditions that require competent responses from health and social care services. There is also recognition that countries need to be prepared to respond to global health emergencies, such as pandemics, and to health inequalities that impact negatively on mortality and morbidity. Effective responses, then, are
Introduction The research literature addressing the intersection of care and migration has burgeoned since the early 2000s. Within this literature, two major research directions can be identified. One direction addresses the paid and unpaid care work of migrants, particularly migrant women in the Global North. Another investigates the extent to which migrants are granted access to care. Seldom have these directions explored the practices through which migrants care for each other. While bringing the concept of care to migration studies, this literature has
379 International Journal of Care and Caring • vol 2 • no 3 • 379–88 • © Policy Press 2018 Print ISSN 2397-8821 • Online ISSN 2397-883X • https://doi.org/10.1332/239788218X15321004821311 article SPECIAL ISSUE • The care ethics moment: International innovations On care and dissonance within pedagogical encounters Yusef Waghid, yw@sun.ac.za Stellenbosch University, South Africa Pedagogical encounters in South African universities among students and teachers are progressively moving away from constrained human relations reminiscent of the apartheid past. No
