This is a book on how home is made when care enters the lives of people as they grow old at home or in 'homely' institutions. Throughout the book, contributors show how home is a verb: it is something people do . Home is thus always in the making, temporal, contested, and open to negotiation and experimentation. By bringing together approaches from STS, anthropology, health humanities and health care studies, the book points to the importance of people's tinkerings and experiments with making home, as it is here that home is being made and unmade.

Offers a unique and deeply interdisciplinary contribution to open up the black box of contemporary practices and theories of home-making for the elderly and in end-of-life care Brings together for the first time authors from various disciplinary backgrounds to investigate home in care Provides unique perspectives on 'home'; how it must be seen and analyzed as mediated by biomedicine's knowledges, technologies, moralities and practices, as well as by (related) cultural imaginaries of home and aging, as well as policies of managing and financing ageing Will appeal to students and researchers from a broad variety of disciplines: from the humanities and social sciences to health sciences and design and planning studies

Autorentext

Bernike Pasveer is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Studies Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
Oddgeir Synnes is Associate Professor at the Centre of Diaconia and Professional Practice, VID Specialized University, Norway
Ingunn Moser is Professor at the Faculty of Health Studies at VID Specialized University, Norway.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Bernike Pasveer, Oddgeir Synnes and Ingunn Moser: Doing home with care in ageing societies.- Part I: Moving Imaginaries.- Chapter 2. Oddgeir Synnes and Arthur Frank: Home as a cultural imaginary at the end of life.- Chapter 3. Loretta Baldassar, Raelene Wilding and Shane Worrell: Eldery migrants, digital kinning and digital home making across time and distance.- Chapter 4. Ingebjørg Haugen: Homesickness for people with dementia.- Chapter 5. Frode Jacobsen: Imaginaries of home making and home care in public policies.- Chapter 6. Daryl Martin, Sarah Nettleton and Christine Buse: Biographies, bricks and belonging: architectural images of home making in later life.- Part II: Negotiating Institutions.- Chapter 7. Ken Worpole: A home at the end of life: changing definitions of 'homeliness' in the hospice movement and end of life care in the UK.- Chapter 8. Daniel López Gómez, Mariona Estrada Canal and Lluvi Farré Montalà: Havens and Heavens of ageing-in-community: exploring home, gender and age in senior cohousing.- Chapter 9. Natashe Lemos Dekker and Jeannette Pols: Aspirations of home making in the nursing home.- Chapter 10. Bernike Pasveer: Almost at home: modes of tinkering in hospice.- Part III: Shifting Arrangements.- Chapter 11. Ger Wackers: Making a place for dying at home: liminality, territoriality and care at the end of life.- Chapter 12. Ester Serra Mingot: Ageing across borders: the role of Sudanese elderly parents in the process of kin and home making within transnational families.- Chapter 13. Ike Kamphof and Ruud Hendriks: Beyond façade. Home making and truthfulness in dementia care.- Chapter 14. Christine Ceci, Ingunn Moser and Jeannette Pols: The shifting arrangements we call home.