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Activity and Social Responsibility in the Discourse on Health Care, Long-Term Care and Welfare Services for Older Immigrants.

Ageing well has been associated with the responsibility to age actively, successfully, or healthily in public and research discourses. This connection of individual responsibility with ageing has been criticised in Social Gerontology for neglecting the access to social, economic, and health resource...

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Published in:BioMed Research International pp. 1 - 12
Main Author: Goettler, Andrea
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 7/30/2021
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        affil: Chair of Sociology of Diversity, Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University of Munich, 80992 Munich, Germany
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          Long Term Care
          Social Welfare
          Immigrants In Old Age
          Social Responsibility
          Social Participation
          Social Work Service
          Human
          Discourse Analysis
          Germany
          Aging
          Social Networks
          Ethnic Groups
          Sociology
          Health Policy
          Health Promotion
          Aged
          Aged: 65+ years
      ab: Ageing well has been associated with the responsibility to age actively, successfully, or healthily in public and research discourses. This connection of individual responsibility with ageing has been criticised in Social Gerontology for neglecting the access to social, economic, and health resources. This paper investigates (individual) responsibility, informal support, and public initiatives in discourses on older immigrants in Germany. The research framework employs a sociology of knowledge approach to discourse, which guided the discourse analysis of German policy reports, guidelines and handbooks on ageing and migration from 2000 to 2019 (43 documents in total). The results reveal that besides public initiatives concerning long-term care, health promotion, and social services, informal solutions through social networks are frequently emphasised in the data. The focus, thereby, is on long-term care, which is presented as a responsibility of the extended family. Thus, resources are situated in the family, social networks, and ethnic group, which should be opened and connected with public services; however, the focus is shifting from older immigrants towards local municipalities. This study provides a discourse perspective on the construction of resources and challenges for older immigrants concerning health, care, and social services and offers an assessment of the cultural and integrating/excluding qualities in active ageing discourses.
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