My research focuses on care work and how new ideals and approaches to care transform especially eldercare practices. I have a background in sociology of work and primarily work with qualitative methods, especially interviews, ethnographic field studies and document analyses. My theoretical inspiration is drawn from critical sociological approaches to work, feminist care theories, and socio-material understandings of bodies and technologies in working life.
Since beginning my PhD in 2011, my research has focused on how active ageing and ‘reablement’-ideals change the bodywork of care, and care professionals’ identities and understandings of ‘good care’. In close relation to these changes, I have also explored how the use of new technologies in eldercare contributes to this development, studying how technologies such as wash-and-dry toilets, sensor-flooring, tele-care and virtual homecare change care practices. My current research focuses on how dignity and dignified care is articulated and pursued in eldercare policies and practices, and how new care technologies are related to these pursuits
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Agnete Meldgaard Hansen, Phd
Roskilde University
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Publications
Grosen, S. L., & Hansen, A. M. (2021). Sensor-floors: Changing Work and Values in Care for Frail Older Persons. Science, Technology & Human Values, 46(2), 254-274.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243920911959
Hansen, A. M., & Grosen, S. L. (2022). New Choreographies of Care: Understanding the Digital Transformation of Body Work in Care for Older People. In H. Hirvonen, M. Tammelin, R. Hänninen, & E. J. M. Wouters (Eds.), Digital Transformations in Care for Older People: Critical Perspectives (pp. 166-185). Routledge. Routledge Studies In The Sociology Of Health And Illness https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003155317-10
Hansen, A. M. (2022). Dignity equals distance? Pursuing dignity in care for older adults. Ageing and Society, FirstView. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X210008
Grosen, S. L., & Hansen, A. M. (2021). Sensor-floors: Changing Work and Values in Care for Frail Older Persons. Science, Technology & Human Values, 46(2), 254-274.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243920911959
Hansen, A. M. (2022). Dignity equals distance? Pursuing dignity in care for older adults. Ageing and Society, FirstView. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X21000891