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

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[Copenhagen] : Copenhagen Business School Press, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
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1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations
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Hvid, Helge and Kamp, Annette
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Contents
1. Introduction : elderly care in transition -- 2. Paradoxes in elderly care : the Nordic model -- 3. The quest for the meaning of work : competing concepts of meaning -- 4. Knowledge 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. The meaning of work from subjective and intersubjective perspectives : a daily conflict of creating and losing meaning in elderly care -- 7. New public management : constructing a new management identity in care for the elderly -- 8. Creating meaning in dementia care work : a story of (re) professionalisation? -- 9. The future of elderly care : beyond new public management?
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8763099365 (electronic bk.)
9788763099363 (electronic bk.)
9788763002448 (pbk.)
8763002442 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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