Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “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, Università 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
