Motivating Activity and Handling Risk at Swedish Senior Summer Camps: A Micro Level Cultural Analysis of Camp Leaders’ Simultaneous Practices of Pushing and Pulling Participating Seniors

Gabriella Nilsson; Lisa Ekstam; Janicke Andersson

Motivating Activity and Handling Risk at Swedish Senior Summer Camps: A Micro Level Cultural Analysis of Camp Leaders’ Simultaneous Practices of Pushing and Pulling Participating Seniors

Gabriella Nilsson, Lisa Ekstam, Janicke Andersson

Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

Abstract

Overview: Drawing from ethnographic observations at senior camps, this paper discusses the contradiction between wanting to push participants into trying newactivities and needing to pull them back to ensure safety.
Theme: Social and Cultural Perspectives on Aging

Original language	English
Publication status	Unpublished - 2017 Nov 3
Event	Aging & Society: Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference: Social Inequalities, Exclusion, and Age-Discrimination - University of California, Berkeley, United States Duration: 2017 Nov 3 → 2017 Nov 4 Conference number: 7 http://agingandsociety.com/about/history/2017-conference

Conference

Conference	Aging & Society: Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference
Country/Territory	United States
City	Berkeley
Period	2017/11/03 → 2017/11/04
Internet address	http://agingandsociety.com/about/history/2017-conference

Subject classification (UKÄ)

Cultural Studies
Ethnology

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Nilsson, G., Ekstam, L., & Andersson, J. (2017). Motivating Activity and Handling Risk at Swedish Senior Summer Camps: A Micro Level Cultural Analysis of Camp Leaders’ Simultaneous Practices of Pushing and Pulling Participating Seniors. Aging & Society: Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference, Berkeley, California, United States. https://agingandsocialchange.com/assets/downloads/aging/J17FinalProgam.pdf

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Nilsson, G , Ekstam, L & Andersson, J 2017, 'Motivating Activity and Handling Risk at Swedish Senior Summer Camps: A Micro Level Cultural Analysis of Camp Leaders’ Simultaneous Practices of Pushing and Pulling Participating Seniors', Aging & Society: Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference, Berkeley, United States, 2017/11/03 - 2017/11/04. <https://agingandsocialchange.com/assets/downloads/aging/J17FinalProgam.pdf>

Motivating Activity and Handling Risk at Swedish Senior Summer Camps: A Micro Level Cultural Analysis of Camp Leaders’ Simultaneous Practices of Pushing and Pulling Participating Seniors. / Nilsson, Gabriella ; Ekstam, Lisa; Andersson, Janicke.
2017. Aging & Society: Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference, Berkeley, California, United States.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

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Motivating Activity and Handling Risk at Swedish Senior Summer Camps: A Micro Level Cultural Analysis of Camp Leaders’ Simultaneous Practices of Pushing and Pulling Participating Seniors

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