At Home in a Nursing Home

Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and compassionate way. In an ethnographic study of how elderly residents can be given the right care, this book provides a new route into the bodily realities of ageing. It is a vital contribution to the search for alternative approaches to aged care provision. **Contents** At Home in a Nursing Home -- Contents -- Illustrations and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part I. Walking -- Chapter 1. Watching Each Step -- Chapter 2. Beyond Wandering -- Chapter 3. Walking Out of the Freeze -- Chapter 4. Living in the Tension -between Walking and Not Walking -- Part II. Care -- Chapter 5. Care as Multiplicities -- Chapter 6. Caring at the Threshold of Life and Death -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Glossary -- References -- Index.