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With dementia care shifting from institutional to home settings, this book considers the intersections of formal health and social care strategies and family experiences. Drawing on case studies from Canada, it enhances the understanding of good policy and practice in dementia care and the potential for better outcomes for all those concerned.

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Preface 1. Studying family care practices 2. From strategy to service: practices of identification and the work of organizing dementia services 3. What matters for care at home for people living with dementia? Using film to surface the situated priorities of differently positioned ‘stakeholders’ 4. Negotiating everyday life with dementia: four families 5. Relations between formal and family care: divergent practices in care at home for people living with dementia 6. Patterning dementia 7. Borders and helpfulness 8. How to sustain a good life with dementia?

Care at Home for People Living with Dementia

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    A Hardback by Christine Ceci, Mary Ellen Purkis

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 29 September 2021
      ISBN-13 9781447359289
      978-1447359289
      ISBN-10 1447359283
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      Age groups: the elderly / old age Social welfare, social policy and social services

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      With dementia care shifting from institutional to home settings, this book considers the intersections of formal health and social care strategies and family experiences. Drawing on case studies from Canada, it enhances the understanding of good policy and practice in dementia care and the potential for better outcomes for all those concerned.

      Table of Contents
      Preface 1. Studying family care practices 2. From strategy to service: practices of identification and the work of organizing dementia services 3. What matters for care at home for people living with dementia? Using film to surface the situated priorities of differently positioned ‘stakeholders’ 4. Negotiating everyday life with dementia: four families 5. Relations between formal and family care: divergent practices in care at home for people living with dementia 6. Patterning dementia 7. Borders and helpfulness 8. How to sustain a good life with dementia?

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