Author: Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen

Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen is a post-doctoral researcher at the department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. He received his PhD in 2014 at the university of Aarhus, Denmark, and is currently affiliated with the Center for Healthy Aging. Through long-term fieldwork among healthcare workers and solitary elderly men in the rural area of Southern Sealand, Mikkelsen attempts to lay out the shifts in approaches to health and aging within the welfare state.

Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen

A Hero of Solitude #MeadCompetition

February, 2017 / By Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen

The person I wish to present in the following, a 72-year-old man named Herman, has withdrawn from almost all human […]