There's No Place Like Home: Place and Care in an Ageing Society / Edition 1

by Christine Milligan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754674238
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/28/2009
Series:	Geographies of Health Series
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

'This book fills a significant gap in the literature on health and social care in today's ageing societies. In an engaging overview, from a health geography perspective, it emphasises the importance of varying settings for care, changing societies and technologies and the roles of informal as well as formal carers.' Sarah Curtis, Durham University, UK '...a timely and valuable contribution to emerging work in the geography of care and care-giving... This book will be of interest to students and researchers working in the health and social sciences.' The Journal of Ageing and Society

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