HETERONORMATIVE SILENCES AND QUEER LONGINGS IN LGBTQ PEOPLE’S EXPERIENCES OF ELDER CARE AND HOME
Anna Siverskog · 2023
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Anna Siverskog examines how LGBTQ older adults in Sweden experience elder care and home, in a study from 2023. For this generation, home was often the one safe place in decades when their identities were criminalized or treated as illness. Needing care blurs that private shelter, since helpers enter the home or the person moves into a care residence.
Interviews with people using home care or living in care homes were read through a queer theory lens. A silence around gender and sexuality ran through daily care life. The paper traces that silence partly to squeezed budgets and rushed staff time. It also records queer longings for recognition and safety that persist into old age and asks what care could do to answer them.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anna Siverskog |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |