“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, Università di Bologna

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.

Related Link: BLOG: Angela Rong Yang Zhang on At Home in a Nursing Home

Series: Volume 9, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations

Subject: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Area: Asia-Pacific

LC: RA998.A8 Z43 2023

BL: DRT ELD.DS.729905

BISAC: SOC013000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Gerontology; SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; MED059000 MEDICAL/Nursing Home Care