ABSTRACT
This book set out to contribute to a new geographical analysis of care for frail older people – one that weaves together the narratives of care for older people across a landscape that stretches from the home to the community, residential care and beyond. This perspective has largely been unexplored by those researching care through historical, sociological, gerontological or social policy lenses. The theoretical and empirical analyses offered here reinforce how care for older people is laden with territoriality. As such, it can be seen as a spatial expression of how human action is bound up not just with the power relationships of care, but also with tensions, conflict, emotion and change. How these spaces are manifest then, can be seen in part, as the outcome of reaction to the territorial action of one party (for example formal or informal carers, or care-recipient) and in part as a response to attempts to modify the spaces and places in which that care occurs. Such shifts, I have argued, can be read and understood in part, through the extitutional arrangements of care, and in part through the concepts of anthropological and nonplace and their relationship to notions of home and Home.
