Perspectives on care at home for older people /

"This volume focuses on how high quality care is provided and the practices and policies that support this. It will offer case studies (both policy- and practice-oriented empirical studies) from countries that share a basic orientation to social welfare: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Swede...

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Other Authors: Ceci, Christine., Kristín Björnsdóttir., Purkis, Mary Ellen.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Routledge studies in health and social welfare ; 6.
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Online Access:https://recursos.uloyola.es/login?url=https://accedys.uloyola.es:8443/accedix0/sitios/ebook.php?id=141336
Table of Contents:
  • Aging, independence, and community / Mary Ellen Purkis
  • Homecare and frail older people : relational extension and the art of dwelling / Joanna Latimer
  • Homes for care : reconfiguring care relations and practices / Isabel Dyck and Kim England
  • "To work out what works best" : what is good in home care? / Christine Ceci
  • Bringing it all back home : the (re)domestication and (de)medicalization of care in the UK / Davina Allen
  • Assisting the frail elderly to live a good life through home care practice / Kristín Björnsdóttir
  • Who can be against quality? : a new story about home-based care : NPM and governmentality / Hanne Marlene Dahl
  • Creating home care recipients : using categorization as a tool in home care case management / Anna Olaison
  • The making of medico-managerial care work culture in public home care for the elderly / Lea Henriksson and Sirpa Wrede.