The Home care experience : ethnography and policy /
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| Imprint: | Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1990. |
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| Description: | 280 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sage focus editions ; 119 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1112122 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Home As Sickroom
- The Dependent Elderly, Home Health Care, and Strategies of Household Adaptation
- Culture and Disorder in the Home Care Experience
- The Home as Sickroom
- Making Arrangements
- The Key to Home Care
- The Defiance of Hope
- Dementia Sufferers and their Carers in a London Borough
- Part 2. Patterns Of Caregiving
- Invisible Caregivers in the Spotlight
- Non-Kin Caregivers of Frail Older Adults
- Support Systems for the Familyless Elderly
- Care Without Commitment
- Personal Care
- Variation in Network Type, Style, and Capacity
- The Dynamics of Long-Term Familial Caregiving
- Daughters Caring for Elderly Parents
- Part 3. Service Provision: Defining And Decision-Making
- Describing Home Care
- Discourse and Image in Involuntary Commitment Proceedings
- Transformations of Home
- The Formal and Informal Process of Home Care Planning
- Policing the Family? Health Visiting and the Public Surveillance of Private Behavior