Critical Social Work with Older People in Neo-liberal Times: Challenges and Critical Possibilities

Hastings, Sandra; Rogowski, Steve

doi:10.1080/09503153.2014.983435

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“…Rogowski is well known for his persistence in defending the project of social work in England in late times. For instance, he has argued for the use of critical practices when working with older people, especially because we are still living in ‘neoliberal times’ ( Hastings & Rogowski, 2015 : 21). He has suggested approaches to working with young people that ‘resist the neoliberal present’ ( Rogowski 2013 :7).…”

Section: A Lost Futurementioning

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Lost futures, doomed timelines and unwanted inheritances: how we are handling painful time in social work

Davies

2023

Critical and Radical Social Work

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This article makes the submission that social work is stuck and needs now to find ways to endure its commitments to caring from inside the suspended time that is so characteristic of late capitalism and not from some imaginary place outside of it. When telling this time in the form of history, there is a tendency to want to pass over what is most difficult about it – the inescapable fact of having to live through it – just at the moment when this is the reality most in need of being carefully thought about. Remembering that in talking about social work, we are talking about a labour of care defined, in part, by a sensitive, practical engagement with time that is difficult to live, I look to recent feminist theoretical work on care that can help us to think about how we might handle being stuck in painful time.

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Section: A Lost Futurementioning

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Lost futures, doomed timelines and unwanted inheritances: how we are handling painful time in social work

Davies

2023

Critical and Radical Social Work

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“…Of course, there is no end of ready-to-hand resources available across the care professions, not to mention education research, cognitive and developmental psychology and even in self-help and lifestyle literature regarding how to improve critical thinking, with an array of names to guide the way: Dewey, Piaget, Siegel, Freire, Watson and Glaser, Ennis and Weir, Paul and Elder and so on. More broadly, the opposition of 'critical' practice to 'neoliberal' conventions has become a standard face-off in the politics of care (Hastings and Rogowski 2015;Chapman and Withers 2019). But such a framing inevitably leads to the consolidation of certain unhelpful stereotypes: that critical thinking is a kind of monolithic entity that can be inserted 'in' to practice at various appropriate moments; that practice itself is uncritical until this happens.…”

Section: Critical Tensionsmentioning

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Against Critical Thinking in Health, Social Care and Social Work

Grimwood¹

2023

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“…Consent, paternalism, deception, coercion, managerialism, loss of voice, thoughtlessness, dynamic non-performativity, and copyright are issues inherent in other assessment tools and in research on older adults in general. This has significant implications for social workers, whose interactions with older adults in clinical and community settings are often organized around standardized assessments (Hastings & Rogowski, 2015).…”

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“…This can lead to unrealistic expectations and a one-size-fits-all approach to working with older adults (people over the age of 55). For example, social work interactions with older adults in clinical and community settings are organized around standardized assessments to measure cognitive, psychological and physical well-being, as defined by the healthy aging model (Hastings & Rogowski, 2015). Undetected cognitive impairment is positioned as the biggest issue facing older adults and a major threat to society today (Cruickshank, 2013;Johnstone, 2011).…”

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Unmapping the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE)

Machado¹

2021

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This study is a critical discourse analysis of the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE), an assessment tool used to screen older adults for cognitive impairment worldwide. In it, I deconstruct and unmap two unofficial versions of the MMSE to reveal how its discursive practices are grounded in ageism, ableism, sanism, and other forms of oppression. I challenge the MMSE’s status as a neutral container for knowledge by uncovering how it actively defines “cognitive impairment” and “cognitively impaired” identity formation through epistemic violence. I discuss five key issues: consent, scoring, claims-making, voice, and copyright. Lastly, I reflect on how hegemonic discourses about “dementia” keep older adults and people with cognitive impairments in their social place while maintaining the multi-billion dollar “care” industry. This study highlights how social workers are implicated in injustices against older adults that are often hidden. I hope it will be the impetus for transformative change in this field. Keywords: Mini-Mental State Exam, short cognitive test, discourse analysis, unmapping, cognitive impairment, older adults, gerontology, anti-oppressive practice

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Critical Social Work with Older People in Neo-liberal Times: Challenges and Critical Possibilities

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

Lost futures, doomed timelines and unwanted inheritances: how we are handling painful time in social work

Lost futures, doomed timelines and unwanted inheritances: how we are handling painful time in social work

Against Critical Thinking in Health, Social Care and Social Work

Unmapping the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE)

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