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Caring for older people in the 21st century: notes from a small island.

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>09/2006
<mark>Journal</mark>Health and Place
Issue number3
Volume12
Number of pages12
Pages (from-to)320-331
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Drawing on carer narratives from research undertaken in New Zealand, this paper considers the interrelationship between place and the care-giving experience. In doing so, it considers: first, how informal carers of older people experience the transition in the place of care from the home to care homes; second, how they negotiate new identities for themselves as carers in these new care settings; and third, carers’ views on how we might develop more inclusive models of care in care home settings. While much current work on care-giving in the home highlights the blurring of the boundaries between formal and informal care-giving, this paper suggests that the blurring of the boundaries of care may also be manifest in an increased penetration of informal care-giving within the semi-public space of the residential care home.

Bibliographic note

RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Social Work and Social Policy & Administration