Christine Milligan

There's No Place Like Home: Place and Care in an Ageing Society (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317010692
• Artikelnr.: 44782856

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.