Disgrifiad
In this paper, I critically explore the concept of care in relation to older people at the end of their lives. Care is assumed to be a positive term, abiding connotations of sustenance, love, and attentiveness. However, this paper explores concepts introduced in Noam Leshem’s book (2025) Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land. Using Noam’s concept of ‘the logics of care’, the diverse ways various systems of sovereignty define and calculate what forms of life are worth sustaining and which are worth ignoring, will be explored in relation to older people. The logics of care are calculable, like a ‘ledger of abandonment’ whereby sovereign bodies calculate what is potentially gained or lost by providing (or not) the capacity for certain groups, like older adults, to live. This paper explores the ways that care is suspended and applied for older people at the end of life. In several contemporary examples in health and social care settings in the UK, I apply Leshem’s concept of ‘No Man’s Land’, a place outside the realm of normal sovereign logics and duty of care.| Cyfnod | 16 Rhag 2025 |
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| Teitl y digwyddiad | Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group Annual Symposium: Care and Caring |
| Math o ddigwyddiad | Cynhadledd |
| Graddau amlygrwydd | Rhyngwladol |