Hansen Helle Cathrine
Norwegian Social Research, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.
Sociol Health Illn. 2025 May;47(4):e70028. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.70028.
Drawing on perspectives of care work as a collaborative and negotiated practice, this paper aims to explore how older service users actively contribute to care work and situations of care in the reablement policy context of homecare. The study analyses how service users in Danish and Norwegian municipal homecare settings place their bodies at disposal and how care workers' responses to service users' embodied contributions shape care practice and situations of care. Four ways of placing service users' bodies at disposal were identified: proactively, dependently, reluctantly and instructively. Care workers' capacity to attentively respond to service users' physical and emotional needs and their flexibility and adaptiveness in dealing with service users placing their bodies at disposal in various ways, seem to be key for care work as a collaborative practice that promotes dignity in care. The study applies affective ethnography as a methodological and analytical approach.
借鉴关怀工作是一种协作和协商实践的观点，本文旨在探讨在家庭护理的恢复性政策背景下，老年服务使用者如何积极参与关怀工作及关怀情境。该研究分析了丹麦和挪威市政家庭护理环境中的服务使用者如何支配自己的身体，以及护理人员对服务使用者身体贡献的反应如何塑造护理实践和关怀情境。研究确定了服务使用者支配自己身体的四种方式：主动地、依赖地、不情愿地和指导性地。护理人员认真回应服务使用者身体和情感需求的能力，以及他们在应对以各种方式支配自己身体的服务使用者时的灵活性和适应性，似乎是促进关怀尊严的协作性关怀工作的关键。该研究采用情感民族志作为一种方法论和分析方法。
