Full Description
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.
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
