van Holten, Karin; Kaspar, Heidi; Soom Ammann, Eva (2019). Fragile familiarity in transnational home care arrangements for older people International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 13(2), pp. 51-82. Linköping University Electronic Press 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.18403
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This paper examines the notion of familiarity in live-in elder care settings and how it is challenged, changed, and reestablished. Live-in care is a strategy to prevent disruptions and preserve familiarity in enabling older persons in need of extensive care to stay at home – and thus, to enable ageing in place. This paper problematizes this strategy based on interviews with family caregivers who engaged a migrant live-in care worker in Switzerland. The key argument is that live-in care arrangements constitute an all-embracing form of inserting formal, paid-for care service delivery into the informal, private, intimate space of home. The live-in care arrangement not only challenges the familiarity of the home space, but also seems to ask for strategies of adaptation to familiarize the unfamiliar. Therefore, the introduction of live-in care is consequential for all involved parties and requires largely underestimated efforts to adapt to the new home space. Keywords: care migration, familiarity, home, home care, live-in care, long-term care, old-age care, transnational care.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
School of Health Professions |
Name: |
van Holten, Karin; Kaspar, Heidi and Soom Ammann, Eva  0000-0003-3646-1450 |
ISSN: |
1652-8670 |
Publisher: |
Linköping University Electronic Press |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Christoph Golz |
Date Deposited: |
24 Jan 2020 06:37 |
Last Modified: |
28 Nov 2022 21:45 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.18403 |
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Additional Information: |
Date: 2019 |
ARBOR DOI: |
10.24451/arbor.10210 |
URI: |
https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/10210 |
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