Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Bernike Pasveer is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Studies Maastricht University, The Netherlands.Oddgeir Synnes is Associate Professor at the Centre of Diaconia and Professional Practice, VID Specialized University, Norway
Ingunn Moser is Professor at the Faculty of Health Studies at VID Specialized University, Norway.
“Both interdisciplinary and transnational, Pasveer, Synnes and Moser’s book combines original critique of the contested nature of home-making with inspirational case studies of caring about, and with, ageing loved ones in different settings, circumstances, and locations around the globe. This book is an invaluable addition to critical ageing studies and a welcome resource for educators, policy makers and health and allied professionals who are involved in end-of-life healthcare in home, community, and residential care settings.” (Dr. Joan McCarthy, Senior Lecturer Healthcare Ethics, University College Cork, Ireland)
“Home as a good place to live out one’s life is a powerfully positive image—until it disrupts possibilities for living well. This exciting interdisciplinary collection helps transform the stability of home as a noun that may imprison into a verb, breathing life into alternatives and experiments of doing home with care, opening up places of care, showing how home can be thought and practiced in more ephemeral, dynamic ways. This book challenges and inspires!” (Mary Ellen Purkis PhD, Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, University of Victoria, Canada)
““Home” is a term whose meaning could scarcely seem more clear. The chapters in this impressive collection unpack the several issues it conceals, however, in critiquing widely-held assumptions like “there’s no place like home” to care for older adults. “Care”, too, is a term whose meaning is less than straightforward. This book elevates the discussion of both concepts, and certainly their intersection, to a level sorely needed in several fields—gerontology, nursing, and public policy, to name just a few.” (William Randall, Professor of Gerontology, St. Thomas University, Canada)
“Vividly observed, empathetic, and insightful, this book offers important new perspectives on “home”, so highly valued in the contexts of care for the aged but too often left unexamined. Far more than simply a place or building, “home” is revealed to be a marvelously variable, complex and contingent collective accomplishment, made—and continually remade anew—of the dreams, labors, and struggles of ordinary people working to order their world amid unchosen but unavoidable changes.” (Janelle S. Taylor, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada)
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Bernike Pasveer is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Studies Maastricht University, The Netherlands.Oddgeir Synnes is Associate Professor at the Centre of Diaconia and Professional Practice, VID Specialized University, Norway
Ingunn Moser is Professor at the Faculty of Health Studies at VID Specialized University, Norway.