Abstract
In this chapter, we articulate this volume’s key conceptualization of home as a verb. The book’s aspiration is to unlock home, and look at the work it always takes to make home when home intersects with new forms or modes of care because of ageing. We argue that the three modes of ordering the book—moving imaginaries, negotiating institutions and shifting arrangements—allow us to deeply uproot the imaginary of home (and care) as fixed and unmovable. After presenting the different chapters in these three parts of the book, we articulate how this ‘verbing’ of home with care affords room to not only interpret but also design and practise home-care arrangements in new ways.
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The term ageing-in-place is a common denominator in a set of otherwise variable and partially overlapping discourses. It coins policies, academic analyses and promotional materials of care organizations all at the same time, and it usually takes for granted that place is home, home is place, and that when organized well, care at home will result in productive and active and independent ageing within some kind of familiar community.
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Obviously, many more studies have emerged after Mallett’s review and analysis, most prominently, perhaps, in the field of human geography. For another groundbreaking contribution, see Blunt and Dowling (2006).
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We are grateful to Dominique Vinck for pointing this out.
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Pasveer, B., Synnes, O., Moser, I. (2020). Doing Home with Care in Ageing Societies. In: Pasveer, B., Synnes, O., Moser, I. (eds) Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life. Health, Technology and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0406-8_1
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