Susan Braedley – författare

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.What are the consequences of growing old and needing care in a world shaped by inequality? Who provides the care? What are the challenges?This groundbreaking book delves into conditions for ageing and caring, asking how they could be improved for different communities living in high-income welfare states.Emphasising that equitable ageing depends on equitable care conditions, the contributors draw on extensive empirical research. Packed with actionable policy and practice insights, this compelling volume charts a path toward a more just and inclusive future for ageing populations alongside all those providing care, whether as family members, friends or as paid workers.

How can we plan, organize, distribute, and offer care in ways that treat both those who need it and those who provide it with dignity and respect?Using the example of residential services, Troubling Care: Critical Perspectives on Research and Practices investigates the fractures in our care systems and challenges how caring work is understood in social policy, in academic theory, and among health care providers. In this era defined by government cutbacks and a narrowing sense of collective responsibility, long-term residential care for the elderly and disabled is being undervalued and undermined.A result of a seven-year interdisciplinary research project-in-progress, this book draws together the work of fourteen leading health researchers, including sociologists, medical practitioners, social workers, policy researchers, cultural theorists, and historians. Using a feminist political economy lens, these scholars explore and challenge the theories, work organization, practices, and state-society relations that have come to shape long-term care.Troubling Care offers critical perspectives on the often disquieting arena of care provision and proposes alternatives for thinking about and meeting the needs of some of our most vulnerable citizens in ways that go beyond residential care. This book seeks to bridge not only the gaps between disciplines, but also those between theory and practice.Features:takes an interdisciplinary approach, making this work appropriate for courses in a variety of disciplines including sociology, medicine, social work, health policy, cultural studies, and political economyincludes the work of fourteen leading health researchers, including sociologists, medical practitioners, social workers, policy researchers, cultural theorists, and historiansbridges the gap between theory and practice by incorporating both theoretical research and specific case examples