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Deconstructing housework — cuts to home support services and the implications for hospital discharge planning
Author(s)	Jasmyne Rockwell
Journal title	Journal of Women & Aging, vol 22, no 1, 2010
Pages	pp 47-60
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Older women ; Discharge [hospitals] ; Home care services ; Housework ; Case studies ; Canada.
Annotation	Over the last decade, the home support resources in British Columbia, Canada have decreased. Specifically, non-medical tasks such as housekeeping and meal preparation have been severely restricted and are no longer available for hospital discharge planning with older people who are returning to the community. This paper applies analytical deconstruction to three aspects of a case example of an older couple: the technical and bureaucratic aspects of who gets home support and what kind; the socially constructed aspects of gender roles and the performance of unpaid labour; and the personally informed aspects that involve an older person's life experiences, social supports, and personal values. The paper employs a feminist poststructuralist framework to suggest discharge planning implications for social work, using the case as an example. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-100512204 A
Classmark	BD: LD:QKJ: NH: GH6: 69P: 7S
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