Aldring, ensomhed og social navigation: at kaste anker i nye relationer

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  • Mikka Nielsen
Aging, Lonelines and Social Navigation. Dropping Anchor
in New Relations
Based on an ethnographic study of a cross-municipality initiative to prevent
depression among the elderly, I investigate partly how perceptions of depression and loneliness are entangled in the municipality initiative and partly how
the elderly targeted in the intervention experience lack of close relations. With
an analytical onset in social navigation and anchoring, the paper illustrates that
the elderly, even in late life, may often establish and engage in new relations
requiring strong abilities in navigating changing relations and call for many
considerations as to how such relations are established, used, nursed and spared
to avoid them being drained. The paper discusses, how establishing new relations, e.g. through municipal-driven activities to prevent depression, may add
meaningful activities in the elderly’s everyday lives, yet managing experiences
of vulnerability, dependency, and despair require close mutual and often familial
or long-standing relations.
Original languageDanish
JournalTidsskriftet Antropologi
Volume86
Pages (from-to)115-130
ISSN0906-3021
Publication statusPublished - 2023

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