Fragile familiarity in transnational home care arrangements for older people

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 agei...

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Main Authors: Karin van Holten, Heidi Kaspar, Eva Soom-Ammann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2019-12-01
Series:International Journal of Ageing and Later Life
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Online Access:https://journal.ep.liu.se/IJAL/article/view/1461

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