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Rehabilitation policies are becoming increasingly popular in eldercare as a means to ensure dignity and reduce costs. This paper examines the implications of rehabilitation within Danish homecare work, a type of work that is often stigmatized due to its associations with low‐status ‘dirty’ body work in old people's homes. The paper combines two research traditions: studies of dirty work and studies of body work. It draws on observations and focus groups in Denmark to explore how the introduction of rehabilitation changes the work of care workers, and how such changes are associated with a potential reshaping of stigma. In contrast to previous research, this paper shows that although rehabilitation was partly introduced to reduce stigma of this type of work, the practice of rehabilitation paradoxically reinforces the stigma that it attempts to manage. Thus, the analysis helps to improve our understanding of the ambiguous and varying ways rehabilitative eldercare reshapes and reinforces stigma and gender stereotypes among women who do ‘dirty’ body work.
Tværfagligt samarbejde og teammøder hyldes i den aktuelle moderniseringsbølge af den offentligesektor. Her ses de som svaret på, hvordan faglig vidensdeling, kvalitet og effektivitetkan højnes i arbejdet. I artiklen udfordres imidlertid denne antagelse ved at diskutere en rækkebarrierer, der medvirker til at forhindre, at de gode intentioner omsættes i praksis. Det sker vedat fokusere på de normer- og gruppedynamikker, der kan opstå på teammøder, hvor medarbejderemed forskellig status og faglighed deltager. Gennem observationer af tværfaglige møderi hjemmeplejen analyseres det i artiklen, hvordan møderne iscenesættes og superviseres påen måde, så sosu-medarbejdernes historier, om deres arbejde med at rehabilitere individuelleældre borgere, modtages og bearbejdes forskelligt af deres kollegaer og supervisorer. I artiklenfremhæves, hvordan nogle historier udpeges som ’succeshistorier’, og derved resulterer ianerkendelse, mens andre historier giver anledning til frustration og sanktioner på møderne.En central pointe er, hvordan det sanktions- og belønningssystem, der etableres gennem udvekslingaf historier på møderne, er baseret på én dominerende vision om, hvordan arbejdetoptimeres og håndteres ’professionelt’, og hvordan dette paradoksalt nok ensretter snarere endåbner op for en kreativ dialog om alternative tilgange til arbejdet med ældre mennesker.
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