Social rights and natural resources

Research principles in social work for sustainable human in long-term care for older people

“…By avoiding harmful behaviors, people demonstrate their commitment to taking responsibility for their own health and the health of others. The concept of healthy aging places the responsibility on people to strive to make healthy choices throughout their lives and, if they are in good health, helps to reduce the cost of health care in old age [37,38]. The older generation is portrayed as a large group that can be a strong economic force in society: "The available evidence suggests that caring for older people is not as costly to finance and that older people, especially when healthy and active, provide significant economic and societal benefits, e.g., through direct participation in the formal and informal labour force, through taxes and consumption, social security contributions, through transfers of money and assets to younger generations, volunteering, etc.…”

“…The anthropological and ethnographic research tradition warns us of the pitfalls of creating colonizing knowledge [16,53,54]. The pitfalls of patronizing objectification of reality into which researchers concerned with the needs of older people and planners of social welfare interventions can easily fall are precisely those of selectivity and generalization [37,44,55]. Analyzing and collating information inevitably leads to generalization, selection, and grouping of information, while the demands of the feasibility of ideas and the pragmatics of human life lead to the reduction of people's expectations, desires, and needs.…”

“…Adding to or correcting the stereotypical political and scientific narrative of people in need of care can only be done through an analysis of the language and constructions of one's experience [44,49]. Exploring needs requires looking beyond the 'similarly sad or similarly successful story' as well as beyond the 'binding identity project" [37]. Improved interpretive schemes for explaining the world (new ideas and language) can only emerge in dialogic encounters with the "other" and otherness (helping us to see our invisible selves) and in the dialectical process of shaping personal theories and practices of everyday life [37,43,62].…”

Climate change and poverty

“…for example, the deprivation categories can be re-articulated in such terms. See the work of Hartley Dean (2014) and Ian Gough (forthcoming).…”

Climate Change and Poverty

“…This book offers no systematic analysis of needs, interests, and so on, but such an account could be developed from what I say in Chapters Two to Four, for example, the deprivation categories can be re-articulated in such terms. See the work of Hartley Dean (2014) and Ian Gough (forthcoming). 5 If anything, they may even take the framework too much for granted.…”