Christine Milligan

There's No Place Like Home: Place and Care in an Ageing Society

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses key concerns about the nature and site of care and care-giving. It utilizes geographical perspectives to present a comprehensive analysis of how the intersection of informal care-giving within domestic and residential care homes can create complex landscapes and organizational spatialities of care.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9781138260061
• ISBN-10: 1138260061
• Artikelnr.: 47442913

Autorenporträt

Christine Milligan is Professor of Health and Social Geography at Lancaster University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction
Conceptualising the complex landscapes of care
Who cares? People, place and gender
Mapping the contours of care - international and transnational perspectives
Care and home
The impact of new care technologies on home and care
Care and community?
Care and transition - from community to residential care
Emotion and the socio-spatial mediation of care
Reconfiguring the landscape of care: porosity, integration and extitution
Concluding commentary
Bibliography
Index.