The Age of Supported Independence
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Gauld, Robin / Hale, Beatrice
- ISBN: 978-90-481-8814-7
- EAN: 9789048188147
- Produktnummer: 12819175
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'144 KB
- Auflage: 2010
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