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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463460003321

Titolo

Elderly care in transition [[electronic resource] ] : management, meaning and identity at work : a Scandinavian perspective / / Annette Kamp and Helge Hvid (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Copenhagen], : Copenhagen Business School Press, c2012

ISBN

87-630-9936-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HvidHelge

KampAnnette

Disciplina

362.60948

Soggetti

Older people - Care - Scandinavia

Older people - Services for - Scandinavia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""About the authors""; ""1. I ntroduction: Elderly care in transition""; ""2. P aradoxes in Elderly Care: The Nordic Model""; ""3. T he quest for the meaning of work: Competing concepts of meaning""; ""4. K nowledge at play: Positioning care workers as professionals through scientific rationality and caring dispositions""; ""5. Meaning of work in elderly care in Denmark: Fragile reconstructions""; ""6. T he meaning of work from subjective and intersubjective perspectives � a daily conflict of creating and losing meaning in elderly care""

""7. N ew Public Management: Constructing a new management identity in care for the elderly""""9. T he future of elderly care � beyond New Public Management?""