Full Description
Introducing novel theoretical, empirical and practical investigations with case studies from UK, Europe, South America and South East Asia, the book offers a novel global outlook on how contemporary homes are facing genuine challenges from operational, economic, spatial, social and wellbeing perspectives.
The changing demographics of our modern society have inevitably impacted the dynamics and relationships within the home from being personal and private to that of multiple work relationships; domestic work, care for older people, or supporting people with special needs. Whilst the home is a concept universally experienced, permeating every aspect of our lives, it remains an entity whose influence on health and wellbeing is poorly understood.
This book brings together 17 different contributions from scholars, researchers and practitioners from different disciplinary and professional backgrounds including three feature articles by leading figures, such as Lord Best and Baroness Hollins. The chapters are organised within three parts that look at the triangle of people + work + care in the home. At a time when homes are increasingly becoming local hubs for care and wellbeing, this volume is a critical and useful addition to current literature in the social sciences, humanities, economics, culture, care and wellbeing in the domestic sphere.
Contents
1. Home and Care in a Changing Society
PART ONE: HOME AND CARE
Feature Article 1: A Home for Later Life
2. From Care in the Home to the Transformation of Other Care Environments in Homes
3. The Healthy Home at Early Years
4. Unsafe Food Handling and Preparation in Poor Households
5. Responsible Citizenship and Our Common Home: Taking Care of the Natural Environment in Households and Beyond
PART TWO: HOME AND PEOPLE
Feature Article 2: My Home, My Life: Aspirations of People with Intellectual Disability for an Ordinary Home and an Ordinary Life
6. The Home as the Primary Source of Intellectual Development: From a Phenomenological and Anthropological Perspective
7. The Ageing of Parents in the Home of an Adult Person with Disability
8. Taking Care of Saver Disabled Child at Home: Caregivers Burden and Chance of a Personal Growth
9. A "Sense of Home": Perceptions and Expectations of Elderly People about Residential Care Facilities
PART THREE: HOME AND WORK
Feature Article 3: UpToYou, Emotional Education for Personal Growth in the Early Years: Educating Interior Dispositions
10. Work at the Home: Purpose, Function, and Care
11. Aligning the On-Demand Economy with the Home as a Workplace
12. Caring for the Home in Iberoamerica: A Cross-Country Comparison
13. Working from Home: Is Technology a Help or a Hindrance in Achieving Work/Life Harmonisation?
14. Singapore: Developing Life Skills and Changing Mindsets about and through Work in the Home
