| Description |
1 online resource (313 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Megatrends That Affect Caregiving Boundaries; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Contributors; 1 Health Professionals Caring for Aging Relatives: Negotiating the Public-Private Boundary; 2 Dynamics of Carework: Boundary Management and Relationship Issues for Home Support Workers and Elderly Clients; 3 Visible and Blurred Boundaries in Familial Care: The Dynamics of Multigenerational Care in Singapore; 4 Family Caregiving and Helping at the Intersection of Gender and Kinship: Social Dynamics in the Provision of Care to Older Adults in Canada |
|
5 Work and Care: Blurring the Boundaries of Space, Place, Time, and Distance6 Caring from a Distance: Contemporary Care Issues; 7 Working Carers in New Zealand: Zones of Care and Contested Boundaries; 8 Boundaries Blurred and Rigid at the Front Line of Care: Care Workers and the Negotiation of Relationships with Older People; 9 Sharing the Work: Care Networks of Frail Seniors in Canada; 10 Financial Payments for Family Carers: Policy Approaches and Debates; 11 Economic and Social Roles in Midlife in Britain: Expanding Intersections and Blurring Boundaries |
|
12 Clashing Temporalities: Time, Home, and the Bodywork of Care13 Blurring the Boundaries: Aging and Caring at the Intersection of Work and Home Life; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
There are not many books that address the boundaries of care of older people from a work-life perspective. This book, authored by contributors from various countries, looks at the boundaries of care by looking at private and public help, professional and personal help and paid and unpaid caregivers. It captures and conceptualizes the complexity of the intersection of work and home life as it relates to the provision of assistance and support to older relatives in a variety of 'care work' contexts. It explores these issues within a critical framework, rather than from an assumed stress or burde |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Phillips, Judith E
|
| ISBN |
9780203837986 |
|
0203837983 |
|
