Christine Milligan

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

• Gebundenes 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: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780754674238
• ISBN-10: 0754674231
• Artikelnr.: 57050914

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.