At Home in a Nursing Home: An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia

At Home in a Nursing Home

An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia
 
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Publisher: Berghahn Books
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ISBN13:9781800736641
ISBN10:1800736649
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:218 pages
Size:228x152 mm
Language:English
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Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ?at home? in residential care in a novel and compassionate way. In an ethnographic study of how elderly residents can be given the right care, this book provides a new route into the bodily realities of ageing. It is a vital contribution to the search for alternative approaches to aged care provision.




?This is a really good, in fact vital, contribution to our understanding of aged care. This is an opinion enhanced in part by the political context, at least in Australia, in which aged care is being discussed. In this country, which has an aging population and inadequate quality and quantity of aged care facilities, an opportunity exists to ask different kinds of questions ? one of which might be about being at home in an institutional home?. ? Simone Dennis, Universit? di Bologna

Table of Contents:


List of Illustrations



Foreword

Tim Ingold



Acknowledgements



Prologue: Aged Care in Australia: Current Crisis and Context



Introduction: Becoming at Home through Right Care



Part I: Walking



Chapter 1. Watching Each Step

Chapter 2. Beyond Wandering

Chapter 3. Walking out of the Freeze

Chapter 4. Living in the Tension Between Walking and Not Walking



Part II: Care



Chapter 5. Care as Multiplicities

Chapter 6. Caring at the Threshold of Life and Death



Conclusion: Becoming Ethical through Care



Epilogue



Afterword

Philip B. Stafford



Glossary

References

Index