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The Age of Supported Independence - Voices of In-home Care (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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The Age of Supported Independence - Voices of In-home Care (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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This book investigates the experiences of older people who remain
at home with care. It examines the transition points for the
important life changes faced by family members who take on a
greater care-giving role. The book draws on demographic analyses
and qualitative fieldwork to explore the shift from independence to
increasing dependence, and suggests that this transition
constitutes movement into a new stage of life, that of an Age of
Supported Independence. Applying the anthropological concept of
rites of passage in their analysis, the authors focus on the
changes in everyday living within the spatial environment of the
home, the temporal organization of daily life, and the reshaping of
relationships. They suggest that many older people - as well as the
family members who become carers - remain in a state of
'liminality': unable to make sense of their new situation and
experience and, despite assumptions that ageing-in-place sustains
social connectedness, excluded from their communities.
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