Sökning: "funktionshinder och kön"
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1. Ålderdom, omsorg och makt. : Gamlas situation och omsorgsrelationer i nyliberala tider
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the status of old age and the nature of elderly care in Sweden, where the welfare state is being transformed through neoliberalism. The overall aim is to study old age as identity and lived experience, and how caring relationships condition the lives of the elderly. LÄS MER
2. Villkorat vuxenskap : Levd erfarenhet av intellektuellt funktionshinder, kön och ålder
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to explore and analyse lived experience of social categorisations such as intellectual disability, gender and age. The following overarching questions will direct the focus of the thesis, on how 13 middle-aged (aged 38-60 years) women and men who receive disability services according to the Act (1993:387) concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS), describe their everyday life practices:- In what way(s) are the social categorisations disability, gender, and age expressed in the interviews? How do the participants relate their lived experience of the social categorisation in relation to arenas such as work, family, and leisure time? How can this lived experience be understood in relation to the structures and conditions that form the institutions within the disability services?With a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach, the thesis is based on repeated audio- and video-recorded qualitative semi-structured interviews and field visits. LÄS MER
3. Ålderdom, omsorg och makt. Gamlas situation och omsorgsrelationer i nyliberala tider : Old age, care, and power. Elderly people's situation, and care relations in neoliberal times
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the status of old age and the nature of elderly care in Sweden, where the welfare state is being transformed through neoliberalism. The overall aim is to study old age as identity and lived experience, and how caring relationships condition the lives of the elderly. LÄS MER
4. "Det handlar om ett värdigt liv" : människor med funktionshinder införlivar IKT i sina vardagliga liv
Sammanfattning : Studien fokuserar på människor med funktionshinder och hur de kan påverka sin livssituation med informations- och kommunikationsteknologin (IKT) som verktyg. Människor med funktionshinder ses i många sammanhang som om de vore en enhetlig grupp utan att man beaktar att funktionshinder är en av de samhälleliga skillnader som, liksom ålder, kön, klass, geografisk region etc. LÄS MER
5. Personlig assistans i praktiken : Beredskap initiativ och vänskaplighet
Sammanfattning : Personal assistance is a user-directed service that was founded by a section of the disability movement, namely the American Independent Living movement, in the late 1960s. Today, the concept and ideology of personal assistance services (PAS) has spread worldwide, and constitutes a part of the support system for people with disabilities in many countries. LÄS MER