As Long As it Lasts: Older Substance Users, Brittle Ties and Danish Health Care

Jonas Strandholdt Bach; Bagga Bjerge; Natasja  Eilerskov; Camilla Hoffmann Merrild

doi:10.1080/01459740.2024.2349512

As Long As it Lasts: Older Substance Users, Brittle Ties and Danish Health Care

Jonas Strandholdt Bach^*, Bagga Bjerge, Natasja Eilerskov, Camilla Hoffmann Merrild

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Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences - Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research

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Abstract

In this article, we examine a group of older marginalized substance-using citizens and their relations to Danish health care. We offer empirical examples collected through ethnographic fieldwork, about how they handle their health situation and encounters with the Danish healthcare system. Analytically, we particularly draw on the concept of disposable ties, and suggest the term “brittle ties” to nuance the term and examine how perceived individual autonomy is weighted against health care trajectories and how these citizens often prefer to fend for themselves or lean on provisional networks rather than enter into health care trajectories and follow-up treatment.

Translated title of the contribution	Så længe det varer : - ældre rusmiddelbrugere, skrøbelige relationer og det danske sundhedsvæsen
Original language	English
Journal	Medical Anthropology
Volume	43
Issue	4
Pages (from-to)	324-337
Number of pages	14
ISSN	0145-9740
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2024.2349512
Publication status	Published - May 2024

Keywords

Access to health care
Denmark
inequality in health
marginalization
substance use

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