Pritchard-Jones, LG (2014) Ageism and Autonomy in Health Care: Explorations through a relational lens. Health Care Analysis, 25 (1). pp. 72-89. ISSN 1573-3394

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Abstract

Ageism within the context of care has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Similarly, autonomy has developed into a prominent concept within health care law and ethics. This paper explores the way that ageism, understood as a set of negative attitudes about old age or older people, may impact on an older person’s ability to make maximally autonomous decisions within health care. In particular, by appealing to feminist constructions of autonomy as relational, I will argue that the key to establishing this link is the concept of self-relations such as self-trust, self-worth and self-esteem. This paper aims to demonstrate how these may be impacted by the internalisation of negative attitudes associated with old age and care. In light of this, any legal or policy response must be sensitive to and flexible enough to deal with the way in which ageism impacts autonomy.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10728-014-0288-1
Uncontrolled Keywords: Ageism, Autonomy, Care, Health care, Decision-making, Older persons, Relational autonomy, Self-relations
Subjects: R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Law
Depositing User: Symplectic
Date Deposited: 20 Apr 2016 15:54
Last Modified: 05 Mar 2020 13:42
URI: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/1638

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