TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hale,Beatrice
AU  - Barrett,Patrick
AU  - Gauld,Robin
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Age of Supported Independence: Voices of In-home Care 
SN  - 9789048188147
AV  - HV40-69.2 
U1  - 361.3 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Geriatrics
KW  - Aging
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Social work
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Social groups
KW  - Family
KW  - Youth
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Social Work
KW  - Sociology of Familiy, Youth and Aging
KW  - Geriatrics/Gerontology
KW  - Sociology, general
N1  - The Demographic and Policy Context of Supported Independence in Later Life -- The Move from Independence -- Space and Liminality -- Temporality and Liminality -- Relational Transitions -- Separation, Liminality and the Potential for Reconnections at Home with Care -- Care Work and Reconnections -- Reconnections—Supported Independence and Agency in Frailty
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8814-7
ER  -