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Who cares? Managing obligation and responsibility across the changing landscapes of informal dementia care.
- Source :
- Ageing & Society; Jul2013, Vol. 33 Issue 5, p888-907, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- This paper explores the different ways in which informal carers for people with dementia negotiate their care-giving role across the changing organisational and spatial landscape of care. In-depth qualitative data are used to argue that the decisions of carers are socially situated and the result of negotiations involving individuals, families and wider cultural expectations. These decisions affect where care occurs. In addressing these issues this paper draws attention to the lack of choice some carers may have in taking on the care-giving role; how and why carers draw upon support; and the different expectations of the care-giver's capabilities across the different sites of care, specifically at home and in nursing homes. It concludes that research and policy attention should focus on how the expectations about the role and abilities of carers are affected by where, and how, care is delivered. In doing so this paper contributes to the emerging health geography literature on care-giving as well as developing the spatial perspective in the established gerontological literature. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- TREATMENT of dementia
AGING
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
CAREGIVERS
DECISION making
GROUNDED theory
HOME care services
INTERVIEWING
RESEARCH methodology
MOTIVATION (Psychology)
NEGOTIATION
NURSING care facilities
NURSING home employees
RESEARCH
RESEARCH funding
QUALITATIVE research
SOCIAL responsibility
JUDGMENT sampling
SOCIAL support
SOCIAL context
THEMATIC analysis
FAMILY roles
DIARY (Literary form)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0144686X
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Ageing & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 87927989
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X12000311