| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
The spatial ordering of care
— public and private in bathing support at home | | Author(s) | Julia Twigg |
| Journal title | Sociology of Health & Illness, vol 21, no 4, July 1999 |
| Pages | pp 381-400 |
| Keywords | Bathing capacity ; Self care capacity ; Community care ; Domiciliary services ; Day centres ; Home bathing service ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Domiciliary care takes places in the private world of individuals' own homes. Focusing on the provision of bathing in the community, this article explores the spatial ordering of care at home, contrasting between the public and private, and their consequences for the power dynamics of care. These are explored in terms of the ideology of home, the spatial ordering of privacy within the home, and the treatment of the body. Carework trespasses on and re-orders these divisions. The article also explores the contrasting site of the day centre. Baths at day centres are private acts in public places, and in reversing the symbolism of home, they reveal some of the wider meanings of bathing. The content of this article is discussed more fully in a forthcoming book by Julia Twigg "Bathing, the body and community care" (Routledge), which reports on the project. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990824205 A |
| Classmark | CAE: CA: PA: N: NMC: N6B: 3F |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|