Overview

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.

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Author:   Angela Rong Yang Zhang
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781800736641

ISBN 10:   1800736649
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   13 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of 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

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This is a really good, in fact vital, contribution to our understanding of aged care. This is an opinion enhanced in part by the political context, at least in Australia, in which aged care is being discussed. In this country, which has an aging population and inadequate quality and quantity of aged care facilities, an opportunity exists to ask different kinds of questions - one of which might be about being at home in an institutional home . * Simone Dennis, Universita di Bologna

Author Information

Angela Rong Yang Zhang received the Australian Government Postgraduate Award and Emerging Researchers in Ageing Conference Bursary in 2015 and is currently Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) Grant supported researcher at College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Australia. Dr Zhang is also an Adjunct Fellow to the School of Social Sciences at The University of Adelaide

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